About “Les chants de Maldoror”
Les Chants de Maldoror is a French poetic novel, or long prose poem, written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pen name of Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse. It comprises six cantos and concerns Maldoror, a misanthropic and misotheistic figure of evil who has renounced conventional morality. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1869