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1846–1870
Also known as Comte de Lautréamont, Lautreamont comte de, Comte de Lautreamont, Isidore L. Lautreamont, Isidore De Lautreamont, Comte De Lautreamont, Conte de Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse Conde De Lautreamont, Lautreamont, comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont (French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), an Uruguayan-born French poet.
His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. He died at the age of 24.
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Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Isidore Lucien Ducasse.
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A polemic against the Real in favor of the new and the strange. Isidore Ducasse, or The Count of Lautremont, fits neatly into a genealogy that includes Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Batailles, and Burroughs, but he carves out a space for himself that is entirely new,…
One of those French books that has somehow fallen through the cracks and failed to take root in the English speaking cannon, (see also Salammbô, or all of Flaubert actually - sans Bovary). I tried, and failed miserably, to read this in the original - I've pre…