![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not well-versed in the literature of the French Surrealist movement, but I certainly saw a lot in this than I recognised from the Beats, who were familiar with Breton et al. It is violent, sexually explicit (sexualised violence, too – at one point a woman is gutted through her vagina…), confusing, conflicting, baffling, but quite compelling…Īlthough it pertains to have an ongoing plot, it is really more a series of weird set pieces. It is a proto-surrealist (according to the Surrealists) series of prose poems dealing with the various interactions between Maldoror (essentially evil incarnate, but not Satan, separate, but similar) and his two foes – God and Man. It was written in the late 1860s by Isidore Ducasse, a young South American-born Frenchman who chose to publish under the pseudonym “Le Comte de Lautréamont”. ![]()
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