Both the modernist and the realistic traditions of modern French poetry (P.
One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a. Lautréamont’s works, rediscovered in the 20th century by the surrealists, foreshadowed the tragic floundering of Western European poetry in its course from symbolism to futurism. Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. The first book contained finished prose poems united by a single hero and the intricate plotting of horror fiction the second was a series of lively aphorisms, in which Lautreamont sang of goodness and of boundless faith in man’s strength and his future. He initially expounded a violent rejection of the moral and social principles of modern society in the poem Les Chants de Maldoror (1868-69 published in full, 1890) with the same force and conviction he denounced what he considered the unwholesome excesses of European romanticism in the collection Poems: Preface to a Future Book (1870). Lautréamont left a paradoxical poetic legacy.
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