Lautréamont's Maldoror: Translated by Alexis Lykiard Summary
Comte de Lautréamont

Lautréamont's Maldoror: Translated by Alexis Lykiard Summary

Maldororappears in throughout

Maldoror is the main character of these poems. As the poems, at least until the sixth and final book, are not meant to form any kind of cohesive narrative, Maldoror's character and nature are not always consistent throughout. The most dramatic example of this inconsistency is Book IV, Stanza 4, in which Maldoror is presented as an ancient, immobile body in which various animals have nested; such a state is clearly not...

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