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Comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, 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.
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culture · Uruguayan-born French author (1846–1870) · poet · writer · also Comte de Lautréamont, Isidore Lautréamont, Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, comte de Lautréamont, Isidore Lucien Ducasse
Born 4 April 1846 · Died 24 November 1870 · Q294181
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MutualArt.com: “Comte de Lautréamont” from “Maldorors sange”, 1969
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1940· 1 entry
Breton incorporated him into his Anthology of Black Humour
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1930· 1 entry
Aragon called Lautréamont the "veritable initiator of the modern marvelous", with "the marvelous" being a primary feature of Breton's Surrealism
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1925· 1 entry
A special edition of the Surrealist magazine Le Disque Vert was dedicated to Lautréamont, under the title "Le cas Lautréamont" (The Lautréamont case)
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1920· 1 entry
Contains a reference to a famous line in Canto VI, Chapter 3
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1917· 1 entry
French writer Philippe Soupault discovered a copy of Les Chants de Maldoror in the mathematics section of a small Parisian bookshop, near the military hospital to which he had been admitted
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1870· 1 entry
Died 1870-11-24.
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1863· 1 entry
Enrolled in the Lycée Louis-Barthou in Pau, where he attended classes in rhetoric and philosophy
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1857· 1 entry
To send copies of his book to the critics
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1851· 1 entry
As a five-year-old, he experienced the end of the eight-year Siege of Montevideo in the Uruguayan Civil War
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1846· 1 entry
Born 1846-04-04.
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