It is the greatest masterpiece of the symbolists, however I have found only a few posts about it.
I can't read french yet you dope
It has translations though
>>7632696
>greatest masterpiece of the symbolists
>masterpiece of the symbolists
>symbolists
>SYMBOLISTS
You haven't read it, have you?
>why is it not in the wiki?
fucking put it in there then you dope
>>7632696
The bait is subtle
>>7632800
>translations
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>>7632696
Probably because Maldoror is ded ded ded ded
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kgX4luWBs7o
>>7632696
>symbolists
>>7633204
i liek this song
was he really refereing to the author?
>>7633204
Maldoror is dead
Little brick
Buried in the earth
Maldoror is gone
Was I a man?
Was I a stone?
Maldoror is dead
Chance meetings, Maldoror
You are gone now, Maldoror
The ship that sunk, Maldoror
Dispatched by bullets, Maldoror
Maldoror is dead
Maldoror is dead
Maldoror is gone
Urging, urging, Maldoror
The urge to destruction, Maldoror
They found golden chariots, Maldoror
The sun went black
The moon it bled
Maldoror is dead
Maldoror
The streets are covered, Maldoror
The little girl falls
She cracked her head, Maldoror
The sun went black, Maldoror
Maldoror is dead
Maldoror, he is gone
The train stops in the heart
Of Europe's iron gut
Maldoror is dead
Where to now, Maldoror?
Where do we go, Maldoror?
The bells are tolling, Maldoror
For your funeral pyre, Maldoror
They say you're dead
They say you're gone
Maldoror is dead
Maldoror is dead
Maldoror is dead
Maldoror is dead
Little brick
Maldoror is gone
Buried there, Maldoror
You are dead
The churches crumble, Maldoror
The sun has cracked
The steeple tumbles down
The steeple tumbles
Like you, Maldoror
Maldoror
Maldoror
Maldoror
Buried in the soil, Maldoror
The clock struck backwards, Maldoror
The houses crumble, Maldoror
The waters part, Maldoror
Become a tree
Become a man
Turn into stone, Maldoror
Maldoror
The black angel weeps
The waters part
Maldoror
Maldoror
Maldoror
All fall down
Dead
>>7632696
Anything by Baudelaire.
because people on here don't actually read much
Read this a couple months ago and didn't particularly like it. Seemed pretty edgy and forced, but then again I'm not especially intelligent and probably just didn't get it.
Anyway, could you potentially relate this to 'pataphysics? It seems at least in the same vein of absurdist proto-surrealism. Or am I grasping at straws?
>>7633311
It's nowhere near to be anything symbolist. It's proto-surrealism. And you want to read Rimbaud, A season in hell and Illuminations; then there's a ton of surrealists and others (Rimbaud's and Lautréamont's books were their bibles).
>>7633354
it's proto-surrealist, but no pataphysics there. More in the way of black romantics (and romantics in general), Milton's Satan etc.
I don't think of it as edgy. You have to read it for language, for that magmatic vortex of words: he even gives you sufficient image of how the work feels and works (that flock of sparrows somewhere in the begining).
Don't know how the English translation works. I've read it several times, both in another translation and in original and it's one of the books that had the greatest impact on me.
>>7633320
Yes, he is. He was highly influenced by Lautréamont.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_jmxdiMivg
>>7633320
Yes. He's pretty well-read chap.
>>7632696
>In this work, the great instinctive pulsbeats are lost and exalted on contact with an asbestos cage containing a white-hot heart.
>>7633362
Yeah I guess I didn't read it particularly conscientiously. Probably should read it in French at some point, for the prose to really stand out.
>>7633320
>>7633464
>>7633464
>on obsession for an another's obsession
>the obsession has turned from mental to the material
>the obsession has degenerated into an obsession of collection
>the obsession has been defiled
