Maldoror and Poems

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One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, Lautreamont's fantasy unveils a world -- half-vision, half-nightmare -- of angels and gravediggers, hermaphrodites and pederasts, lunatics and strange children. The writing is drenched with an unrestrained savagery and menace, and the startling imagery - delirious, erotic, blasphemous and grandiose by turns -- possesses a remarkable hallucinatory quality.

The writer's mysterious life and death, no less than the book itself, captured the imagination os surrealists. Jarry, Modigliani, Verlaine and others hailed it as a work of genius. Andre Gide wrote, 'Here is something that excites me to the point of delirium,' and Andre Breton described the book as 'the expression of a total revelation which seems to surpass human capacities'.

This volume also contains a translation of the epigrammatic Poesies.

Lautréamont (1846–1870) was the pseudonym for French poet Isidore-Lucien Ducasse. Born in Uruguay, Lautréamont is best known for his Maldoror and Poems, published in 1869. Maldoror and Poems is considered one of the earliest examples of surrealist writing. While Lautréamont died a rather unknown writer, his work went on to deeply inspire French surrealists such as André Breton.

Paul Knight is a staff writer at Texas Monthly. His work has also appeared in the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Press, the New York Times, and the Texas Observer. He has won national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, and Investigative Reporters and Editors. A graduate of the University of North Texas, he lives in Austin.