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In what continues to loom as one of the biggest criminal copyright infringement cases in the history of Hollywood, a lone African American woman is fighting the battle of her life against those who would ultimately take credit for blockbuster movie franchises, Terminato r and Matrix.
Feb 28, 2015 · CAUTION: By coincidence a DIFFERENT man also named Isidore Ducasse was, for a time, mistakenly believed to be the same man who wrote Maldoror. A biography of that Ducasse was written, covering his involvement in French revolutionary politics and its alleged influence on his “writings”.
Oct 25, 2022 · It's masterfully translated into modern English by R.J. Dent, who has also translated Baudelaire, De Sade, Battaile, Artaud, and Rimbaud for previous works. I chatted with Dent to re-discover The Songs of Maldoror, a book J.G. Ballard called, "... the Black Bible... almost the basic dream text of surrealism."
André Breton wrote that Maldoror is “the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.” Little is known about its pseudonymous author aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846), and early death in Paris (1870).
Apr 1, 2015 · It was written between 1868 and 1869 by Le Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse. During the early 1900s, many of the surrealists (Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Max Ernst) cited the novel as a major inspiration to their own works.
I bring forward Georges Bataille, who had fierce objection to Breton's surrealism, and discuss his reading of Sade against the movement. Adopting this argument, I search for a method of 'unthinking' Maldoror from the signification of surrealism.
Nov 12, 2021 · Chris Columbus, original director of the first 2 Harry Potter films, opens up about why he made the decision to step away from the director's chair.
