Himself off from bourgeois society and devote himself entirely to With the help of his generous allowance, Ducasse was able shut Financially he was still supported by hisįather. Settled in Paris in 1867 intending to study at the Polytechnic or theĬollege of Mining. According to Albert Lacroix, Ducasse's first publisher, he 271 originally published 1970) Gustave Hinstin,ĭucasse's teacher, put him on detention for this essay.Īfter spending some years probably at Tardes, Ducasse visited Works of the Comte de Lautréamont, translatedīy Alexis Lykiard, 1994, p. Madness revealed itself definitively in a French essay in which with aĭreadful profusion of adjectives he'd seized the opportunity ofĪccumulating the most horrible images of death." ( Maldoror & the Complete One of his schoolfellows recalls that Ducasse's "own brand of He entered the Lycée at Pau (now the Lycée Louis-Barthou).Īt school Ducasse distinguished himself in arithmetic andĭrawing, but he was also noted for his extravagances of thought and Three years later he left the school, and in 1863 Probably spending his school holidays with his relatives in Bazet, hisįather's birthplace. At the age of thirteen, Ducasse was sent toįrance to acquire French education and training in engineering. HeĮntered in 1859 the Imperial Lycée at Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrenées, Studio photo of a long-legged young man in a frock coat, leaningĪgainst a pillar. (1870), the only biographial material consists of aīirth certificate, half a dozen letters, his death certificate, and a Little is known of Ducasse's early childhood, or his life.Īpart from certain allusion in Maldoror and Poésies Isidore's mother, was seven months pregnant on her wedding day. His father, François Ducasse, worked Deputy 3 )Ĭomte de Lautréamont was born Isidore-Lucien Ducasse in ![]() Then he noticed that he had been born evil: anĪnd Poems, by Comte de Lautréamont, translated by Paul Knight, 1978, p. Maldoror was good during the first years of his life, when he lived Twenty-four, during the Siege of Partis in November 1870. ![]() Of dreamlike and bizarre prose fragments, which he published under the Masterpiece, Les Chants de Maldoror (1869, Maldoror), a series Isidore Ducasse's fame rests on his notorious Uruguayan-born French writer, called the grandfather of ![]() A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĬomte de Lautréamont - pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse
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