Maldoror

Comte de Lautreamont

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PoetryNDP207First published 1965

The 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. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elab...

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Maldoror

Comte de Lautreamont

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