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Apr 24, 2024 · The song’s lyrics were written by Patti Smith in collaboration with the band’s drummer, Albert Bouchard. It is interesting to note that the song title was also used as the title for the third Cormoran Strike novel, “Career of Evil” by J.K. Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
- Secret Treaties (1974)
- April 1974
- Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock
- Albert Bouchard & Patti Smith
"Career of Evil" began as a piece written by Smith called Poem Of Isidore Ducasse, which is inspired by Les Chants de Maldoror, a poem by the French author Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870) who wrote using the pseudonym Comte de Lautreamont. The group's drummer, Albert Bouchard, put music to the words.
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
Jun 28, 2018 · As Jonathan Cott wrote in The New York Times in 1978, “[Smith’s] sensibility is one that borrows and embraces […] ideas and feelings that have appeared in […] Baudelaire, the illuminations ...
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Oct 25, 2022 · Written by Gabriel Hart. Interviews > Published on October 25th, 2022. Translator R.J. Dent: "You Don't Find Maldoror—It Finds You" Photo courtesy of R.J. Dent. Many of you have never read The Songs of Maldoror (1868) and it shows.
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.
Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
