Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont (Paperback)

from Nazgullie

There's a certain way to approach this book. If you try to read it like a normal book, like a regular piece of prose, you'll have to get out a notebook, and then reread the same paragraphs over and...

from le.vert.galant

While I don't pretend to be an expert on 19th century Gothicism, Maldoror seems to me to be a unique presentation of evil in its most refined and unbridled form. A whole stream of 20th century expe...

from Jannemangan

Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of ...

from slaveofOne

The Chants of Maldoror: epic, grandiose, ludicrous, blasphemous, and foul. This book launched the Surrealist Movement.

from apc251

This is where surrealism begins. It is a dream within a dream. This along with other symbolists - Verlaine, Beaudelaire, and Germaine Nerval are essential to freeing the confines of one's imagination.