Maldoror And Poems (Penguin Classics)

One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, Lautreamont's fantasy unveils a world - half-vision, half-nightmare - of angels and gravediggers, hermaphrodites and pederasts, lunatics and strange children. The writing is drenched with an unrestrained savagery and menace, and the startling imagery - delirious, erotic, blasphemous and grandiose by turns - possesses a remarkable hallucinatory quality. 287 pages.