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About Maldoror and Poems. 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. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued ...
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The Songs of Maldoror. 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. [1] The work concerns the misanthropic, misotheistic character of ...
- Comte de Lautréamont
- Poetic novel
- 1868
- 1868–69, 1874 (complete edition, with new cover)
Nov 1, 1988 · Born in Uruguay, Lautréamont is best known for his Maldoror and Poems, published in 1869. 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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- Comte de Lautréamont, Paul Knight
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Maldoror (and Poems) is a great work. It's audacious, original, startling, heartfelt, insincere, sincere, brutal, funny, outrageous, paradoxical, inspirational. It is the opposite of itself. It's one (or two) of a kind. Some will be attracted to the book because it is sensational. Some will be repelled for the exact same reason.
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Jan 26, 2006 · One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued by the police as the incarnation of evil, as he makes his way through a nightmarish realm of angels and gravediggers, hermaphrodites and prostitutes, lunatics and strange children.
Maldoror and Poems. 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. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued by the ...
Comte de Lautréamont. 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.
