{"product_id":"maldoror-les-chants-de-maldoror-9780811200820","title":"Maldoror: (les Chants de Maldoror)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe macabre but beautiful work, \u003ci\u003eLes Chants de Maldoror\u003c\/i\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 amont: \"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 \u003ci\u003eMaldoror\u003c\/i\u003e, Isidore Ducasse, self-styled Comte de Lautr amont, 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, \u003ci\u003eMaldoror\u003c\/i\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 on Bloy, Maeterlinck, and R my de Gourmont. Later still, Lautr amont 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 amont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811200820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\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":"Default Title","offer_id":36644286103708,"sku":"9780811200820","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b7e7d450-ddff-484d-84df-1c3d59020abc.jpg?v=1603858268","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/maldoror-les-chants-de-maldoror-9780811200820","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}