{"product_id":"maldoror-conte-de-lautreamont-9780811200820","title":"Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe macabre but beautiful work, \u003cem\u003eLes Chants de Maldoror\u003c\/em\u003e, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religious fanaticism. The French poet-critic Georges Hugnet has written of Lautr饌mont: \"He terrifies, stupefies, strikes dumb. He could look squarely at that which others had merely given a passing glance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle is known of the author of \u003cem\u003eMaldoror\u003c\/em\u003e, Isidore Ducasse, self-styled Comte de Lautr饌mont, except that he was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1846 and died in Paris at the age of twenty-four. When first published in 1868-9, \u003cem\u003eMaldoror\u003c\/em\u003e went almost unnoticed. But in the nineties the book was rediscovered and hailed as a work of genius by such eminent writers as Huysmans, L駮n Bloy, Maeterlinck, and R駑y de Gourmont. Later still, Lautr饌mont was to be canonized as one of their principal \"ancestors\" by the Paris Surrealists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition, translated by Guy Wernham, includes also a long introduction to a never-written, or now lost, volume of poetry. Thus, except for a few letters, it gives all the surviving literary work of Lautr饌mont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Conte De Lautreamont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811200825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811200820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Conte De Lautreamont","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044041715967,"sku":"9780811200820","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5575606-a1d8-4eb7-81b0-0b4cda935358.jpg?v=1684970590","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maldoror-conte-de-lautreamont-9780811200820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}