Lautréamont's Maldoror
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped dj. Clean and square boards. Light foxing on book block. Clean text.
Few works in the Western literary canon possess the ferocious, hallucinatory power of Maldoror — a prose poem that reads less like a novel and more like a fever dream conjured from the darkest recesses of the human unconscious. Written by the enigmatic Isidore Ducasse under the pseudonym Comte de Lautréamont, this visionary masterpiece chronicles the violent, blasphemous odyssey of Maldoror, a figure of supreme evil who wages relentless war against God, humanity, and the very fabric of moral order, through a sequence of searing, surrealist cantos that shatter every convention of 19th-century literature. Translated with rare sensitivity and linguistic daring by Alexis Lykiard, this edition brings Lautréamont's incendiary vision to English-language readers with full force intact. Long celebrated as a foundational text of Surrealism — fervently championed by André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and the broader avant-garde movement — Maldoror argues, through sheer poetic violence and grotesque imagery, that transgression itself is an art form. Lautréamont's style is at once baroque and brutal, lyrical and savage, and its influence reverberates through over a century of experimental literature, art, and philosophy. Whether encountered for the first time or revisited, this is a work that does not merely disturb — it permanently alters the reader.
Author: Lautréamont (Translated By Alexis Lykiard)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Allison & Busby, London
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped dj. Clean and square boards. Light foxing on book block. Clean text.
Few works in the Western literary canon possess the ferocious, hallucinatory power of Maldoror — a prose poem that reads less like a novel and more like a fever dream conjured from the darkest recesses of the human unconscious. Written by the enigmatic Isidore Ducasse under the pseudonym Comte de Lautréamont, this visionary masterpiece chronicles the violent, blasphemous odyssey of Maldoror, a figure of supreme evil who wages relentless war against God, humanity, and the very fabric of moral order, through a sequence of searing, surrealist cantos that shatter every convention of 19th-century literature. Translated with rare sensitivity and linguistic daring by Alexis Lykiard, this edition brings Lautréamont's incendiary vision to English-language readers with full force intact. Long celebrated as a foundational text of Surrealism — fervently championed by André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and the broader avant-garde movement — Maldoror argues, through sheer poetic violence and grotesque imagery, that transgression itself is an art form. Lautréamont's style is at once baroque and brutal, lyrical and savage, and its influence reverberates through over a century of experimental literature, art, and philosophy. Whether encountered for the first time or revisited, this is a work that does not merely disturb — it permanently alters the reader.