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Title: Maldoror by Conte De Lautreamont, Comte De Lautremont, Conte de Lautreamont, Guy Wernham ISBN: 0-8112-0082-5 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1965 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Put me to sleep
Comment: Certainly Maldoror is unique--I've never read anything like it before and I doubt that I ever will again. Lautreamont's genius is apparent throughout the book, on every page, in nearly every sentence. That said I've never felt so indifferently towards a book that impressed me so. Truth be told, Maldoror put me to sleep on several occasions. (Perhaps it was the translation?)
Maldoror lacks the humour of, say, A Season In Hell or Gerard de Nerval's poetry. It's difficult to read despite its dark and fantastic subject matter. Occasionally Maldoror is flat-out boring, although it's unfailingly brilliant. (Believe me when I write that I have NEVER had this reaction before!) Brilliant doesn't always translate to likeable, I guess.
The shorter piece of writing in the book, Poesies, is highly amusing. Overall I rate the collection three stars because it just didn't do it for me. I recommend Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval instead of Maldoror.
Rating: 5
Summary: the yummiest, sickest, most dementedly surreal book ever
Comment: "maldoror" is the best surrealist anti literature has to offer, without a doubt. the work of an obviously, eh...unconventional? psyche, it viciously tears a gaping hole in sentimentality and anything else that does not reek of absolute rebellion. if you've ever felt even the slightest rancor against society and the hollow men surrounding you all day every day, you can be sure that you will take a liking to this book. bataille and sade are great, but can't hold a candle to little isidore. perversely delicious.
Rating: 4
Summary: Holy cruelty
Comment: On one's first encounter with Lautremont's "Maldoror", it will appear a virtually formless, incoherent and incompetent work -- "a compilation of a sick mind" -- until, that is, one becomes habituated to its style. Hailed as one of the pioneering works of surrealism, this is undoubtedly one of the most original and explosive meditations on pure evil. Lautremont's glorification of crime and murder, his blasphemy, his rhapsodic celebration of revolt, are, without a doubt, unsurpassed. Never has a book more malignantly oozed more evil, misanthropy and menace. It will jar any so-called "decent" person out of his/her comfortably smug composure.
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Title: The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau, Alvah C. Bessie ISBN: 0965104265 Publisher: Juno Books Pub. Date: 31 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman, Jean-Paul Sartre ISBN: 0802130143 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Flesh Unlimited by Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon ISBN: 1840680156 Publisher: Creation Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0802130135 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Story of O by Pauline Reage ISBN: 0345301110 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1981 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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