Maldoror
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- Author: Lautreamont Comte
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 31127
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Maldoror
Lautreamont Comte
Summary
Lautreamont: Maldoror (collected works)
Maldoror's songs
Songs I and II
Letters
Collected works of Isidore Ducasse
"There are those who write so that people will not approve of them, and with the help of noble qualities of heart that they invent or perhaps have. For me, genius serves to paint the delights of cruelty! Is it in secret by the decisions of Providence, cannot genius be combined with cruelty? You will see the proof of this in my words, if you wish to do so..." So invites Isidore Ducasse, who signed the prose poem of Maldoror (Les Chants de Maldoror), to the reading. He died in 1870 at the age of twenty-four, "cruelly" young, neglected and then forgotten for several decades, only for the surrealists to hail him as their spiritual contemporary, and Breton to declare him the most important forerunner of surrealism.
In this, as some have called it, "a bizarre document of a strange and darkened mind", the author's hero and alter ego Maldoror wanders the world, which sometimes takes on the appearance of Paris, sometimes of some fantastic and changing landscape, while committing various perversely imaginative misdeeds, all in an effort to achieve the apotheosis of evil through absolute rebellion. Maldoror's chants are a strange soliloquy written in an unsettling, ragged rhythm; a song in which the poet attacks the reader with aggressive, sadistic ferocity with his attacks on man and his Creator. "I sang evil," concludes the author, for whom Nobel laureate Le Clézio claims: "Lautréamont is the prophet of liberated poetry."
This is the first edition of Lautréamont in the Croatian language. The already excellent rendition by Zvonimir Mrkonjić is accompanied by a great illustration on the title page, the work of the Polish genius Zdzislaw Beksinski.
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- Author: Lautreamont Comte
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Year of publication:2012
- Place of publication:Koprivnica
- Pages:222
- Dimensions:16x24 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Hardcover
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