Les Chants de Maldoror

The Songs of Maldoror

Author

Comte de Lautréamont

Language

French

Year

1870

Country

France

Genre

Epic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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Les Chants de Maldoror is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse. The work concerns the misanthropic, misotheistic character of Maldoror, a figure of evil who has renounced conventional morality.