Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror) (New Directions Paperbook)

Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror) (New Directions Paperbook)

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.

MaldororÂ 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 LautrÃ©amont: "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,Â MaldororÂ went almost unnoticed. But in the 1890s the book was rediscovered and hailed as a work of genius by such eminent writers as Huysmans, LÃ©on Block, Maeterlinck, and RÃ©my de Gourmont. Later still, LautrÃ©amont 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, volume of poetry. Thus, except for a few letters, it gives all the surviving literary work of LautrÃ©amont.
Country USA
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-14
Format Kindle eBook

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