Maldoror and Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Lautreamont
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Author: LautreamontTranslator: Paul Knight
Introduction: Paul Knight
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-11-01
ISBN: 0140443428
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Reviews of Maldoror and Poems (Penguin Classics)
Book Review: A very good translation of this masterpiece of misanthopy
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a must-read for all misanthropes!
With a nightmarish pre-surrealist quality the author
paints various macabre poems in prose around the
central figure, Maldoror, a being who rejects the
human society to which he cannot belong, and who blames
its Creator for all suffering. It is a love/hate
poem/novel with the world and with the burden of
existence. Very stong and surprising dark imagination!
This book is my bible.
I rate it a 9, because only the original French version
could be considered a 10.
The author's work greatly influenced the Dadaists and
surrealists who later wrote after WWI.
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