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Maldoror
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 841.8
EAN: 9780811200820
ISBN: 0811200825
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 342
Publication Date: 1965-06
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Rating:  - MALDOROR is the greatest - but NOT this translation....
Many people to whom I've recommended this book end up with this publication. I noticed that one reviewer was bored by it. I assure you, you would NOT have been bored by the translation by Alexis Lykiard (going under the title MALDOROR AND COMPLETE WORKS). Lykiard truly captures the rabid bite, godlike arrogance, obnoxiously erudite vocabulary, genius humor, and vortex of profound madness that is Lautreamont's Maldoror.
Rating:  - Put me to sleep
Certainly Maldoror is unique--I've never read anything like it before and I doubt that I ever will again. Lautreamont's genius is apparent throughout the book, on every page, in nearly every sentence. That said I've never felt so indifferently towards a book that impressed me so. Truth be told, Maldoror put me to sleep on several occasions. (Perhaps it was the translation?)
Maldoror lacks the humour of, say, A Season In Hell or Gerard de Nerval's poetry. It's difficult to read despite its dark ... Read More
Rating: - the yummiest, sickest, most dementedly surreal book ever
"maldoror" is the best surrealist anti literature has to offer, without a doubt. the work of an obviously, eh...unconventional? psyche, it viciously tears a gaping hole in sentimentality and anything else that does not reek of absolute rebellion. if you've ever felt even the slightest rancor against society and the hollow men surrounding you all day every day, you can be sure that you will take a liking to this book. bataille and sade are great, but can't hold a candle to little isidore. ... Read More
Rating:  - Holy cruelty
On one's first encounter with Lautremont's "Maldoror", it will appear a virtually formless, incoherent and incompetent work -- "a compilation of a sick mind" -- until, that is, one becomes habituated to its style. Hailed as one of the pioneering works of surrealism, this is undoubtedly one of the most original and explosive meditations on pure evil. Lautremont's glorification of crime and murder, his blasphemy, his rhapsodic celebration of revolt, are, without a doubt, unsurpassed. ... Read More
Rating: - Puts the ahhhh in dada....
You should own this book...and you should buy it right now if you don't own it.
Lautremont's epic prose poem dedicated to the subject of evil is probably one of the best surrealist works we've been lucky enough to have bestowed on us. It jumps all over the map, but it never once loses steam or sags under the weight of its subject matter. This is actually the only book I stopped reading halfway through and went back to the beginning so I could underline all the good parts. And there are a LOT of good ... Read More
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