Maldoror and Poems by Paul Knight, Comte de Lautréamont

Maldoror and Poems

Paul Knight, Comte de Lautréamont

288 pages first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction poetry dark reflective slow-paced
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The writing is drenched with an unrestrained savagery and menace, and the startling imagery – delirious, erotic, blasphemous and grandiose by turns – possesses a remarkable hallucinatory quality.The writer’s mysterious life and death, no less than...

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Community Reviews Summary of 40 reviews

Moods

dark 75%
challenging 50%
mysterious 50%
adventurous 25%
inspiring 25%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

Average rating

3.92

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