LE COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT
(1846-1870)
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)