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Comte de Lautréamont
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Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)
Isidore Ducasse was a Uruguayan-born French poet from the mid-19th century who lived a brief life, dying at just 24 years old. He is remembered as an influential literary figure whose work contributed to the development of modern poetry and artistic movements that followed his era.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1846
- Died
- 1870
- Works
- 75
Top works
- Nyanyian Maldoror dan Poésies
- Poésies
- Los cantos de Maldoror
- Le groupe surréaliste
- Œuvres complètes
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1846
- Active to
- 1870
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 373
Comte de Lautréamont (French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), an Uruguayan-born French poet. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. He died at the age of 24. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Comte+de+Lautr%C3%A9amont">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- The ERA5 global reanalysis
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- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
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Quotes
- “I replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope, malice by good, complaints by duty, scepticism by faith, sophisms by cool equanimity and pride by modesty.”
- “God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked pages; for, unless he should bring to his reading a rigorous logic and a sustained mental effort at least as strong as his distrust, the lethal fumes of this book shall dissolve his soul as water does sugar.”
- “There are those whose purpose in writing is, by means of the noble qualities of heart which their imagination invents or which they themselves may have, to seek the plaudits of other human beings. For my part, I use my genius to depict the delights of cruelty: delights which are not transitory or artificial; but which began with man and will end with him. Cannot genius be allied with cruelty in the secret resolutions of Providence? Or can one, being cruel, not have genius?”
- “Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.”
- “After some hours, the dogs, exhausted by running round, almost dead, their tongues hanging out, set upon one another and, not knowing what they are doing, tear one another into thousands of pieces with incredible rapidity. Yet they do not do this out of cruelty.”
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Wikidata facts
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- Lautréamont.jpg
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- Commons category
- Comte de Lautréamont
- date of birth
- 1846-04-04
- date of death
- 1870-11-24
- name in native language
- Isidore Ducasse
- Commons Creator page
- Comte de Lautréamont
- pseudonym
- Lautréamont
- birth name
- Isidore Lucien Ducasse
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Comte de Lautréamont, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Comte de Lautréamont (/loʊtreɪəˈmɒn/; French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse ([dykas]; 4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), 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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