6/27/2011

Les Chants de Maldoror"Je suis Sale... Les Poux me rongent,....


Les Chants de Maldoror is based on a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines a violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery.  
Lautréamont – Chant IV, 4
Je suis sale. Les poux me rongent. Les pourceaux, quand ils me regardent, vomissent. Les croûtes et les escarres de la lèpre ont écaillé ma peau, couverte de pus jaunâtre. Je ne connais pas l’eau des fleuves, ni la rosée des nuages.

Who is Lautreamont?




Comte de Lautréamont with the pseudonym,Isidore Lucien Ducasse was born 4 April 1846 and died 24 November 1870, an Uruguayan-born French poet.

Ducasse was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to François Ducasse, a French consular officer and his wife, Jacquette-Célestine Davezac