22 Aug
2002
22 Aug
'02
3:40 a.m.
At 10:44 AM 8/22/02 +0200, ecirtap@bluemail.ch wrote:
Anyone know the author of the book? Anyone read it? Recommended, or not?
Isadore Ducasse or the Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants du Maldoror. Originally published in 1869, you'll probably find it in the poetry section even though it's all in prose and reads like a novel. Lautréamont was one of the darlings of the French avantgarde from the surrealists through the 68ers, and this book has the same quaint depraved old-world charm of some of Sade's work but without the sex. -- Caleb Deupree cdeupree@erinet.com