Folio, 318 x 243 mm, bound in full dark blue morocco by devauchelle, preserved in a matching slipcase. This book is the 344th greatest fiction book of all time as determined by. The french poetcritic georges hugnet has written of lautreamont. A fine english translation of the sixcanto poetic french novel originally published in 1869, but revived by surrealist artists of the early twentieth century, who admired its absurd, violent. Writer isidore ducasse who hid behind this pseudonym wrote two books and died.
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Dents version, published by the solar nocturnal imprint of. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read maldoror and poems. For some, such didactic moralizing may be offputting. Illustrated with 42 original etchings by dali, of which 30 are full page horstexte plates, printed by lacouriere. Not speaking any french, i was unfortunate enough to read les chantes in translation. A book full of love poems for the world, all except humanity. There are some disturbing parts sex with a small child or a female shark that i read to find the art within. Throughout, maldoror rails against human weakness of character, hypocrisy, hunger for oautreamont and money, etc.
When finally published in 1934, due to skiras financial difficulties at the time, only 100 suites. The books central character is maldoror, a figure of evil who is sometimes directly involved in a chapters events, or else revealed to be watching at a. Maldoror and poems ebook written by comte lautreamont. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religious fanaticism. The depraved book that teaches you how to be the cruelest. The iconoclastic imagery and tone is typically violent and macabre, and ostensibly nihilistic.