ISIDORE DUCASSE: a.k.a. Comte de Lautréamont - By JEREMY REED / Fiction / Strange Novel
Bizarre Fictional Biography - Cover Painting by William S. Burroughs
Isidore Ducasse a.k.a. Comte de Lautréamont (his pen name): Little is known about this mysterious writer except that he died early at age 24 in Paris 1870, and was born in Uruguay - not much information was ever found about his life - He left behind a few incendiary writings and not much else....
The writings in Particular: 'LES CHANTS DE MALDOROR' - have become infamous and his name lives on !! - A blasphemous text that shocked the 19th Century literary world - and is still shocking to this very day - These writings and 'poems' inspired Breton and the Surrealist Art Movement - and many others w/ it's embrace of dark abstract beauty and absurdist views...
*SO, in the absence of any real biography, Jeremy Reed has created here a fictional biography that falls in line with and captures the mood of the writings of Lautreamont and his celebrations of the virtues of cruelty, misanthropy, and disgust for the stupidity of mankind in general.........
A bizarre fictional biography where the lead character becomes his own murderous double ??
Jeremy Reed re-creates Maldoror's world in this convoluted fictional biographical novel.
CREATION Books - 1995 Edition - No Illustrations - Novel - 145 Pages - NEW PAPERBACK BOOK in VG Condition - Scarce Item - PRICE: $20.00 - Price Includes Shipping - *SORRY No International Orders Please.