Timeline
Lifetime:
1846 -
1870
Passed: ≈
154 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Comte de Lautréamont
Books by Comte de Lautréamont
Chants de Maldoror
Poetry
Satire
Horror
Fiction
Philosophy
Novel
Gothic
Symbolism
Nihilism
Violence
Evil
Rebellion
Humanity
God
French Literature
Surrealism
Dark humor
Protagonist
19th century literature
Macabre
Dada
Misanthropy
Iconoclasm
Prose Poem
Anti-hero
Antagonist
Transgression
Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautreamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse. Many of the surrealists in the early 1900s cited the...