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This 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. Maldoror is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a... read more
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First Sentence edit
MAY it please Heaven that the reader, emboldened and become of a sudden momentarily ferocious like what he is reading, may trace in safety his pathway through the desolate morass of these gloomy and poisonous pages.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 860 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Phineas Finn, and followed by The Idiot.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Comte de Lautréamont (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Isidore Lautreamont (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: French
Publisher: Verboeckhoven et Cie, Brussel
Country: Belgium
Publication Date: 1869
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Verboeckhoven et Cie, Brussel
Country: Belgium
Publication Date: 1869
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: Add the page count.
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 841.8
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