Comte de Lautréamont is a pseudonym for Isidore Lucien Ducasse (Montevideo, Uruguay, April 4, 1846 - Paris, November 24, 1870), a French poet and writer. A pseudonym is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Independence Plaza Montevideo from space, March 1997 Independence Plaza, c. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

Isidore Ducasse was born to a French Consular Officer and his wife. Little is known about his childhood, but it is believed he moved to France at the age of 10 to attend a Parisian lycée. He left school aged 19 to travel, but soon returned to Paris, where he began writing his seminal work, Les Chants de Maldoror, under the name Comte de Lautréamont (based on the character of Latréaumont, from a popular French gothic novel by Eugène Sue). For modern diplomatic consuls, see Consulate general. ... In France, secondary education is divided into two schools: the collège ( IPA: ) (somewhat comparable to U.S. junior high school) for the first four years directly following primary school; the lycée ( IPA: ) (comparable to a U.S. high school) for the next three years. ... The gothic novel is an English literary genre, which can be said to have been born with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ... Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (January 20, 1804–August 3, 1857), French novelist, was born in Paris. ...

The first canto of the book was published in 1868, and the complete work in 1869. The publisher Lacroix however refused to sell the book as they feared prosecution for blasphemy or obscenity. While fighting to have the work published, Ducasse began work on a book of poetry titled Poésies, however this work remained unfinished as the author died under unknown circumstances. A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the communes that begin with Lacroix, see Croix Christian Lacroix (May 16, 1951 in Arles, France) is a French fashion designer. ... Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God or the gods, and by extension any display of gross irreverence towards any person or thing deemed worthy of exalted esteem. ... Obscenity has several connotations. ... Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...

Les Chants de Maldoror is based around a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines an obscene and violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery. The term God is used to designate a Supreme Being, however, there are countless definitions of God. ... Mankind may refer to: Human beings and their society An alias of professional wrestler Mick Foley The MMORTS Mankind The morality play Mankind. ...

The book is often seen as an important work of French symbolism. The artist Amedeo Modigliani always carried a copy of the book with him and used to walk around Montparnasse, quoting from Maldoror. In the 20th century it was acknowledged by the writer André Breton as being a direct precursor to surrealism. Invoking an obscure clause in the French civil code, New York performance artist Shishaldin has recently petitioned the French government for permission to posthumously marry the author. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor. ... The Montparnasse Tower, which at 209m was the tallest building in Western Europe when it was built. ... Andr Breton (February 18, 1896 - September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and Surrealist theoretician. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the unconscious. ... The original Napoleonic Code, or Code Napoléon (originally called the Code civil des francais, or civil code of the French), was the French civil code, established at the behest of Napoléon. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... This article is about the performance artist. ...

Quote

• « Arithmétique ! Algèbre ! Géometrie ! Trinité grandiose ! Triangle lumineux ! Celui qui ne vous a pas connues est un insensé ! »

— Lautréamont, Les chants de Maldoror

Translation: "Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!"

• "Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It closely grasps an author's sentence, uses his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with a right one."

• "Poetry must be made by all and not by one."

External links

• Comte de Lautréamont — Les Chants de Maldoror (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/lautreamont/laut_mal.html) (French)
• Maldoror: Le Site (http://www.maldoror.org/) (French)