1868–1869 French poetic novel by Comte de Lautréamont
The Songs of Maldoror
Cover of the first French edition
Author
Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse)
Original title
Les Chants de Maldoror
Translator
John Rodker (1924)
Guy Wernham (1943)
Paul Knight (1978)
Alexis Lykiard (1994)
R. J. Dent (2012)
Country
France
Language
French
Genre
Poetic novel
Publisher
Gustave Balitout, Questroy et Cie. (original)
Publication date
1868–69 1874 (complete edition, with new cover)
Media type
Print
OCLC
457272491
Original text
Les Chants de Maldoror at French Wikisource
Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse.[1] The work concerns the misanthropic, misotheistic character of Maldoror, a figure of evil who has renounced conventional morality.
Although obscure at the time of its initial publication, Maldoror was rediscovered and championed by the Surrealist artists during the early twentieth century.[2] The work's transgressive, violent, and absurd themes are shared in common with much of Surrealism's output;[3] in particular, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and Philippe Soupault were influenced by the work.[a]Maldoror was itself influenced by earlier gothic literature of the period, including Lord Byron's Manfred, and Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer.[4]
^Comte de Lautréamont (1978). Maldoror and Poems. Translated by Knight, Paul. New York: Penguin. pp. 7–10. ISBN 978-0-14-044342-4.
^McCorristine, Shane (January 2009). "Lautréamont and the Haunting of Surrealism". academia.edu: 36–41.
^Gascoyne, David (1935). A Short Survey of Surrealism. Psychology Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7146-2262-0. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
^Knight, pp. 16-19.
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