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Comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont () was the "nom de plume" of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, "Les Chants de Maldoror" and "Poésies", had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. Ducasse died at the age of 24.
Biography.
Biography Youth.
Ducasse was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to François Ducasse, a French consular
Hotel Lautréamont
Hotel Lautréamont is a 1992 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery. The title comes from the symbolist poet Comte de Lautréamont.
Reception.
Barbara Everett of "The Independent" described the language of the book as "dislocated, dehistoricised, only making meaning if treated as a purely verbal pleasure. Language used like this restricts itself to an excessively thin power of expression. At the precise point at which the reader might trust a poetic world or style, the poem changes gear." Everett continued