Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror) - Brossura

Lautreamont, Conte De

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811200825 ISBN 13: 9780811200820

Casa editrice: New Directions, 1965

Riassunto

Maldoror is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religions fanaticism. The French poet-critic Georges Hugnet has written of Lautréamont: "He terrifies, stupefies, strikes dumb. He could look squarely at that which others had merely given a passing glance." When first published in 1868-69, Maldoror went almost unnoticed. But in the 1890s the book was rediscovered and hailed as a work of genius by such eminent writers as Huysmans, Léon Block, Maeterlinck, and Rémy de Gourmont. Later still, Lautréamont was to be canonized as one of their principal "ancestors" by the Paris surrealists. This 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 Lautréamont.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0811200825
• ISBN 13: 9780811200820
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 342