Maldoror and Poems

Name: Maldoror and Poems
Price: 9.85 USD
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ISBN: 9780140443424

ISBN-10: 0140443428

ISBN-13: 9780140443424

Edition: 1978

Authors: Isidore de Lautrï¿½amont, Paul Knight, Paul Knight, Lautréamont

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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, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued by the police as the incarnation of evil, as he makes his way through a nightmarish realm of angels and gravediggers, hermaphrodites and prostitutes, lunatics and strange children. Delirious, erotic, blasphemous and grandiose by turns, this hallucinatory novel captured the imagination of artists and writers as diverse as Modigliani, Verlaine, André Gide and André Breton; it was…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English