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| Maldoror and Poems (Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Comte Lautreamont
Creator: Paul Knight
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 191067
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0140443428
Dewey Decimal Number: 841.8
EAN: 9780140443424
ASIN: 0140443428
Publication Date: January 26, 2006
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A long long nightmare! March 6, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This 'poem' must be the best exponent of surrealism although it was written well befor the surrealist movement. It has the power of nightmares that suck its reader in. It goes beyond that, it would change you for life.
The 'poem' is extremely violent but extremely beautiful at the same time. This is one of those strange books that, once read, would beckon you again and again and you will find yourself reading it again or at least thinking about it frequently. No wonder the surrealists idealised Lautreamont (real name Isidore Ducasse), a Frenchman born and brought up in Montevideo and died in Paris. He died young and left behind some scattered works, Maldoror being his major achievement. Not much of his life is known and Maldoror must be the piece that kept him alive, a work steeped in death, violence and destruction! Lautreamont himself became his best critic (he frequently elaborates his own work from within) when he said:
'I want the mourning reader atleast to be able to say to himself: "One must give hime his due. He has considerably cretinised me. What wouldn't he have done had he lived longer? He is the best professor of hypnotism I ever knew!"'
Alexis Lykiard's translation, Pg. 214-215
the beginning of surrealism? May 23, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
this book is demented-it's a halucinatory trip through the deranged mind of Maldoror - who is by turns the hero, villian, and narrator of the book. Maldoror describes attrocities, blasphemies, and bestial-ecstacies in a poetic style that is beautiful, even while the subject matter is sickening. It's kind of plotless and dreamlike, but it sucks you in from the first page. I think this book is incredible, but it does contain some of the most graphic violence I have ever read......... so be warned!
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