| LE COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT (1846-1870) |
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| Isidore Ducasse, the Comte de Lautreamont. | ||||||||||||||
| "May it please heaven that the reader, emboldened, and become momentarily as fierce as what he reads, find without loss of bearings a wild and abrupt way across the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-filled pages." [opening of First Canto from Maldoror] | ||||||||||||||
| RELATED LINKS | ||||||||||||||
| Nice French Site | ||||||||||||||
| Site for film of Maldoror, with bio of Ducasse (Lautremont) | ||||||||||||||