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020			_a9780140443424
082			_a841.8 _bLAU
100			_aLautreamont, Comte
245			_aMaldoror and Poems
260			_bPenguin Books, _aLondon : _c1978
300			_a286 p. ; _c19 cm.
365			_b899.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
520			_aInsolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued by the police as the incarnation of evil, as he makes his way through a nightmarish realm of angels and gravediggers, hermaphrodites and prostitutes, lunatics and strange children. Delirious, erotic, blasphemous and grandiose by turns, this hallucinatory novel captured the imagination of artists and writers as diverse as Modigliani, Verlaine, André Gide and André Breton; it was hailed by the twentieth-century Surrealist movement as a formative and revelatory masterpiece.
650			_aEuropean
650			_aPoetry
650			_aSurrealism
700			_aknight, Paul _etr.
942			_2ddc _cBK