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Comte de Lautréamont

Bio: Comte de Lautréamont is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications receiving 56 citations.

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01 Jan 1868
TL;DR: In this article, the lecteur, enhardi and devenu momentanément féroce comme ce qu’ il lit, trouve, without se désorienter, son chemin abrupt and sauvage, à travers les marécages désolés de ces pages sombres and pleines de poison.
Abstract: Plût au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanément féroce comme ce qu’ il lit, trouve, sans se désorienter, son chemin abrupt et sauvage, à travers les marécages désolés de ces pages sombres et pleines de poison ; car, à moins qu’ il n’ apporte dans sa lecture une logique rigoureuse et une tension d’ esprit égale au moins à sa défiance, les émanations mortelles de ce livre imbiberont son âme comme l’ eau le sucre. Il n’ est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui vont suivre ; quelques-uns seuls savoureront ce fruit amer sans danger. Par conséquent, âme timide, avant de pénétrer plus loin dans de pareilles landes inexplorées, dirige tes talons en arrière et non en avant. écoute bien ce que je te dis : dirige tes talons en arrière et non en avant, comme les yeux d’ un fils qui se détourne respectueusement de la contemplation auguste de la face maternelle ; ou, plutôt, comme un angle à perte de vue de grues frileuses méditant beaucoup, qui, pendant l’ hiver, vole puissamment à travers le silence, toutes voiles tendues, vers un point déterminé de l’ horizon, d’ où tout à coup part un vent étrange et fort, précurseur de la tempête. La grue la plus vieille et qui forme à elle seule l’ avant-garde, voyant cela, branle la tête comme une personne raisonnable, conséquemment son bec aussi qu’ elle fait p 24

40 citations

Book
01 Jan 1978
TL;DR: The Chants de Maldoror by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70) depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued by the police as the incarnation of evil, as he makes his way through a nightmarish realm of angels and gravediggers, hermaphrodites and prostitutes, lunatics and strange children. Delirious, erotic, blasphemous and grandiose by turns, this hallucinatory novel captured the imagination of artists and writers as diverse as Modigliani, Verlaine, Andre Gide and Andre Breton; it was hailed by the twentieth-century Surrealist movement as a formative and revelatory masterpiece.

10 citations

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01 Jan 1972

2 citations


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DissertationDOI
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The authors analyse les enjeux de la diversification des styles and des representations du poete chez trois ecrivains, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob et Guillaume Apollinaire.
Abstract: Cette these analyse les enjeux de la diversification des styles et des representations du poete chez trois ecrivains, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob et Guillaume Apollinaire. L’essentiel du corpus s’etend de 1912-1919, soit les annees de guerre et l’immediat avant- et apres-guerre. La carriere de ces trois poetes prend alors son envol; ce sont des initiateurs de l’avant-garde poetique postsymboliste. L’une des caracteristiques saillantes de leur demarche est de multiplier les representations de soi souvent divergentes ou contradictoires, accompagnees d’autoderision et/ou d’autopromotion hyperboliques, de porte-parole fictifs ou de transformations stylistiques importantes. Cela va a l’encontre d’une tendance a l’effacement du poete dans la poesie moderne et contemporaine. Mais les deux phenomenes d’effacement et de mise en scene excessive, temoignent d’une meme interrogation sur la place du poete dans la societe et du monde exterieur a l’art. Face au poeme, poser la question « qui parle? » revient a demander a quel titre il parle, de quel droit, depuis quelle position: affaire de valeur et de legitimite. Pour peu que le poete n’ait plus de role social ou symbolique clair, il peut se retirer de son poeme sous pretexte que la particularite de son existence n’a aucune pertinence, – ou bien profiter de l’indetermination de son statut pour jouer les roles qui lui plaisent; mage, oracle, soldat, paria, etc. Jacob, Apollinaire et Cendrars optent pour ce jeu de masques qui temoigne a la fois d’une inquietude – le poete n’a-t-il plus aucune place? – et d’une aspiration a l’universel: parler enfin pour tous – en devenant chacun tour a tour.

70 citations

Book
01 Jan 1994

63 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the Batman's Joker as a descendant of a specifically violent circus tradition and its reflection in literature, and they describe the aesthetic of violence characteristic of these circus pantomime clowns as the essence of modernity.
Abstract: Besides the doltishly clumsy, amusingly simple and happily idiotic type of clown, there is the evil violent clown. Violent clowns can be traced back to the (circus-)pantomimes of the nineteenth century, to circus tradition and circus literature. Thus, on the basis of the popular corpo-eccentric clown-theatre presented by the French Theâtre des Funambules between 1819 and 1846, as well as the pantomimes of the brothers Hanlon-Lee, this article presents Batman’s Joker as descendant of a specifically violent circus tradition and its reflection in literature. Baudelaire and Adorno understand the aesthetic of violence characteristic of these circus pantomime clowns as the essence of modernity. The appearance and playful rearrangement, montage and reinterpretation of historical (circus) clown elements are typical for Batman’s Joker. Thus, he can be described as a neo-modern clown of violence.

22 citations

Dissertation
01 Feb 2014
TL;DR: The authors argue that the heterotopia was never intended as a tool for the study of real urban places, but rather pertains to fictional representations of these sites, which allow authors to open up unthinkable configurations of space.
Abstract: This thesis looks to restore Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia to its literary origins, and to examine its changing status as a literary motif through the course of twentieth-century fiction. Initially described as an impossible space, representable only in language, the term has found a wider audience in its definition as a kind of real place that exists outside of all other space. Examples of these semi-mythical sites include the prison, the theatre, the garden, the library, the museum, the brothel, the ship, and the mirror. Here, however, I argue that the heterotopia was never intended as a tool for the study of real urban places, but rather pertains to fictional representations of these sites, which allow authors to open up unthinkable configurations of space. Specifically, I focus on three writers whose work contains numerous examples of these places, and who shared the circumstance of spending the majority of their lives in exile: James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald. In each case, I argue that these sites figure the experience of exteriority constituted by exile, providing these authors with an alternative perspective from which to perform a particular kind of contestation. In Ulysses, I argue, they allow Joyce to interrogate the notion of a unified Irish identity by bringing into question the space that constitutes the common locus upon which the nation is founded. In Nabokov’s Ada, they help the author to create a world that transcends the discontinuities of his transnational biography, but also serve to contest this unreal world. In Sebald’s fiction, finally, we find a critique of Foucault’s concept. In relation to the Holocaust, he questions the validity of the heterotopia by bringing into doubt the equation of space and thought upon which it is established.

19 citations