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Oct 25, 2022 · The sentence you have just quoted is from one of Ducasse’s letters and it's complicated by the fact that it is Isidore Ducasse, the author of Poésies, who is making that claim about Maldoror. He wrote that letter a year after Maldoror was published and it can therefore be read as an exercise in damage limitation.
Sarah Maldoror (19 July 1929 − 13 April 2020) was a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent. She is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola.
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Comte de Lautréamont, Alexis Lykiard (Translator) 4.26. 3,820 ratings185 reviews. Andre Breton described Maldoror as -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).
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MALDOROR is the work of a mysterious genius about whom little is known aside from his birth in Uruguay, 1846, and his early death in Paris, 1870. His writings, published under the pseudonym Comte...
Nov 1, 1988 · Maldoror and Poems is considered one of the earliest examples of surrealist writing. While Lautréamont died a rather unknown writer, his work went on to deeply inspire French surrealists such as André Breton.
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