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Maldoror and Poems
Contributor(s): Lautréamont (Author), Knight, Paul (Translator), Knight, Paul (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0140443428     ISBN-13: 9780140443424
Publisher: Penguin Group
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 1988
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - French
Dewey: 841.8
LCCN: 79304625
Series: Penguin Classics
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.05" W x 7.82" (0.52 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
 
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Publisher Description:
One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing

Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr amont (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, Andr Gide and Andr Breton; it was hailed by the twentieth-century Surrealist movement as a formative and revelatory masterpiece.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.