Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautrï¿½amont

Name: Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautrï¿½amont
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ISBN: 9781878972125

ISBN-10: 187897212X

ISBN-13: 9781878972125

Edition: 1994

Authors: Comte De Lautrï¿½amont, Alexis Lykiard

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Andr Breton wrote that Maldoror is "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846), and early death in Paris (1870). Lautr amont's writings bewildered his contemporaries, but the Surrealists modeled their efforts after his lawless black humor and poetic leaps of logic, exemplified by the oft-quoted slogan, "As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella!" Maldoror's shocked first publisher refused to bind the sheets of the original edition...and perhaps no better invitation exists to this book, which…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Exact Change
Publication date: 4/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English