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It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of the Uruguayan -born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse. [1] The work concerns the misanthropic, misotheistic character of Maldoror, a figure of evil who has renounced conventional morality.
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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.
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Comte de Lautréamont ( French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror [1] and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
Little is known of the author of Maldoror, Isidore Ducasse, self-styled Comte de Lautréamont, except that he was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1846 and died in Paris at the age of twenty-four. When first published in 1868-69, Maldoror went almost unnoticed.
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Feb 14, 2019 · The following is excerpted from the museum catalog for “Salvador Dalí’s Stairway to Heaven,” written by David S. Rubin: Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) was a favorite literary work among the Surrealists, many of whom found beauty in art and literature devoted to the pursuit of the irrational and the macabre.
Les Chants de Maldoror, written by Isidore Ducasse under the pen name Comte de Lautréamont, is a highly controversial and influential work of French literature. First published in 1869, this radical and surrealistic novel is often credited with foreshadowing many of the themes and techniques later employed by the surrealists, dadaists, and ...
Mar 30, 2024 · About This Exhibition. Salvador Dalí: Les Chants de Maldoror. Piedmont Arts, Martinsville, Va. Between 1933 and 1934, Salvador Dalí created 44 illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror, a fantastical 1869 text written by Isidore Ducasse, better known by his pen name, the Comte de Lautréamont.
