Comte de Lautréamont
Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870) · France · Writers · Died at 24
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Something wrong?He wrote one savage prose-poem under a fake title, died at 24, and half a century later the Surrealists dug him up and declared him their prophet. The work was *Les Chants de Maldoror*, and it reads like fever breaking into language.
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Lautréamont
15 rue Vivienne Paris in 1860s
Cartouches-Chaudun 7 faubourg Montmartre Paris
Editions Chants de Maldoror
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Plaque Ici vécut et mourut Isidore Ducasse - cour intérieure de Bouillon Chartier Grands Boulevards (août 2023)In their own words 3
, I replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope, malice by good, complaints by duty, scepticism by faith, sophisms by cool equanimity and pride by modesty.
Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
I hail you, old ocean! Old ocean, you are the symbol of identity: always equal unto yourself.
About this person
Isidore Lucien Ducasse was born in Uruguay on 4 April 1846 and took the pen name Comte de Lautréamont when he began writing in France. He published *Les Chants de Maldoror* and *Poésies*, then died on 24 November 1870, just past his twenty-fourth birthday. For decades the work sat in obscurity. Then the Surrealists found it - and in Lautréamont's violent, hallucinatory verses they saw a blueprint for everything they wanted poetry to do. The Situationists followed. A poet who barely lived became a corner pillar of modern literature.
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