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Maldoror and Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Lautreamont

Maldoror and Poems (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Lautreamont
Translator: 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

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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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