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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)
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.
- 24 November 1870 (aged 24), Paris, France
- Poet
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Feb 2, 2004 · Equal parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century's boldest adventures in art, music and literature. André 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 ...
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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. But in the 1890s the book was rediscovered and hailed as a work of genius by such ...
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Apr 1, 2004 · Les Chants de Maldoror Credits: Produced by Anne Dreze and Marc D'Hooghe HTML version by Chuck Greif Language: French: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Metamorphosis -- Religious aspects -- Poetry Subject: Fantasy poetry, French Category: Text: EBook-No. 12005: Release ...
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- Les Chants de Maldoror
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Apr 27, 2022 · Maldoror & the complete works of the Comte de Lautreamont ... Translation of Chants de Maldoror Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) Access-restricted-item
About Maldoror and Poems. 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. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing ...
