'Les Chants de Maldoror' was virtually ignored when first published in 1869, a year before the author's death in Paris in 1870. Decades later the Surrealists di

The Songs of Maldoror is the dark, surreal masterpiece by Comte de Lautréamont. It explores nihilism and the grotesque through the anti-hero Maldoror, blending

Le Comte de Lautréamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Ducasse (1846-70), a Uruguayan-born French writer and poet whose only surviving major work of fiction,

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Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in