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Description:Le Comte de Lautreamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Ducasse, a Uruguayan-born French writer and poet whose only surviving major work of fiction, Les Chants de Maldoror, was discovered by the Surrealists, who hailed the work as a dark progenitor of their movement. It was in Les Chants de Maldoror that Andre Breton discovered the phrase that would come to represent the Surrealist doctrine of objective chance: “as beautiful as the random encounter between an umbrella and a sewing-machine upon a dissecting-table. Artists inspired by Lautreamont include Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy and, in particular, Salvador Dali, who in 1933 produced an entire series of illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror. Twenty of those illustrations are included, for the first time, in this new, definitive edition of Lautreamont's influential masterpiece. Vividly translated by R. J. Dent the first new translation for over thirty years—this edition also includes a foreword by French Surrealist poet Paul Eluard and a concise biography of the author by poet Jeremy Reed. In addition, an introduction by series editor Candice Black details the links between Maldoror and the Surrealist movement.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Songs of Maldoror (Solar Nocturnal). To get started finding The Songs of Maldoror (Solar Nocturnal), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Le Comte de Lautreamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Ducasse, a Uruguayan-born French writer and poet whose only surviving major work of fiction, Les Chants de Maldoror, was discovered by the Surrealists, who hailed the work as a dark progenitor of their movement. It was in Les Chants de Maldoror that Andre Breton discovered the phrase that would come to represent the Surrealist doctrine of objective chance: “as beautiful as the random encounter between an umbrella and a sewing-machine upon a dissecting-table. Artists inspired by Lautreamont include Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy and, in particular, Salvador Dali, who in 1933 produced an entire series of illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror. Twenty of those illustrations are included, for the first time, in this new, definitive edition of Lautreamont's influential masterpiece. Vividly translated by R. J. Dent the first new translation for over thirty years—this edition also includes a foreword by French Surrealist poet Paul Eluard and a concise biography of the author by poet Jeremy Reed. In addition, an introduction by series editor Candice Black details the links between Maldoror and the Surrealist movement.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Songs of Maldoror (Solar Nocturnal). To get started finding The Songs of Maldoror (Solar Nocturnal), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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