Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chants_de_Maldoror

Release date is 2004-04-01

Produced by Anne Dreze and Marc D'Hooghe
HTML version by Chuck Greif

"Les Chants de Maldoror" by comte de Lautréamont is a poetic novel written and published between 1868 and 1869. The work follows Maldoror, a figure of evil who has rejected conventional morality and humanity itself. Through six cantos of surreal, violent episodes, the narrative explores themes of misanthropy, blasphemy, and the grotesque, often praising animals for their inhumanity. Obscure upon release, it later became a cornerstone of Surrealist literature, influencing artists like Dalí and Breton with its transgressive vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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