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Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. 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.
- Comte de Lautréamont
- Poetic novel
- 1868
- 1868–69, 1874 (complete edition, with new cover)
Feb 2, 2004 · Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont. Paperback – February 2, 2004. Equal parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century's boldest adventures in art, music and literature.
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Les Chants de Maldoror is based on a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines a violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery.
- 24 November 1870 (aged 24), Paris, France
- Poet
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One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality.
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Apr 27, 2022 · Maldoror & the complete works of the Comte de Lautreamont : Lautréamont, comte de, 1846-1870 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Mar 31, 2024 · November 24, 1870, Paris, France (aged 24) Notable Works: “Les Chants de Maldoror”. comte de Lautréamont (born April 4, 1846, Montevideo, Uruguay—died November 24, 1870, Paris, France) was a poet, a strange and enigmatic figure in French literature, who is recognized as a major influence on the Surrealists. The son of a chancellor in the ...
Comte de Lautréamont, Guy Wernham (Translator), Nataliya Mavlevich (Translator) 4.15. 4,221 ratings298 reviews. The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing.