An imaginative novel recreating the life of Isidore Ducasse, the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont who he died under mysterious circumstances in 1871. He left almost no clues to his existence, except the explosive, astonishing prose poem, Les Chants de Maldoror, precursor to the works of the Surrealists. Reed evokes a fictional life of the notorious Comte extraordinary for its concentration of poetic power and for its excursions into the psychological hells of the underworld.
- ISBN13 9780720608311
- Publish Date 1 April 2000 (first published 4 February 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Owen Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English