Maldoror Complete Works Lautreamont REPRINT
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Author: Comte de Lautreamont
Andre Breton described Maldoror as "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 and early death in Paris. He bewildered his contemporaries, but the Surrealists modelled their efforts after his black humour and poetic leaps of logic. This is the complete annotated collection of Lautreamont's writings available in English, in Alexis Lykiard's superior translation.The Surrealist model is exemplified by the oft-quoted line, "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 warns the reader, "Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger." For this latest edition, Lykiard updates his introduction to include recent scholarship.
ISBN 9781878972125. Exact Change. pb. 352 pages. 15 x 20 cm.
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Andre Breton described Maldoror as "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 and early death in Paris. He bewildered his contemporaries, but the Surrealists modelled their efforts after his black humour and poetic leaps of logic. This is the complete annotated collection of Lautreamont's writings available in English, in Alexis Lykiard's superior translation.The Surrealist model is exemplified by the oft-quoted line, "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 warns the reader, "Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger." For this latest edition, Lykiard updates his introduction to include recent scholarship.
ISBN 9781878972125. Exact Change. pb. 352 pages. 15 x 20 cm.
available