Maldoror (Les Chants de Maldoror)

✍ Scribed by de Lautreamont, Conte

• Book ID: 110454766
• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 655 KB
• Series: Les Chants de Maldoror
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780811225441

✦ Synopsis

This 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.

Maldoror is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religions fanaticism. The French poet-critic Georges Hugnet has written of Lautreamont: "He terrifies, stupefies, strikes dumb. He could look squarely at that which others had merely given a passing glance." 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 eminent writers as Huysmans, Leon Block, Maeterlinck, and Remy de Gourmont. Later still, Lautreamont was to be canonized as one of their principal "ancestors" by the Paris surrealists. This edition, translated by Guy Wernham, includes also a long introduction to a never-written, or now lost,...