(Les Chants de Maldoror)
"I like Lautreamont a lot. He taught me how important and how possible it was to write a sentence that is just gorgeous. Actually, Im about overdue for a rereading of Maldoror Id like to pick up a few tricks from that book again." -- William T. Vollmann - The Paris Review "The expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." -- Andr Breton
Little is known of the author of Maldoror, Isidore Ducasse, self-styled Comte de Lautramont, except that he was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1846 and died in Paris at the age of twenty-four. Guy Wernham, perhaps best known for his definitive translation of Maldoror, was associated with the Beat Poets.