Maldoror

ALASTOR PRESS 

Lautréamont's (Isidore Ducasse) posthumous fame rests primarily on "The Songs of Maldoror", a cruel and hallucinatory masterpiece from 1869 where pitch-black gallows humor is mixed with horror visions and chilling clarity of thought. The novel sent shockwaves through the literary establishment, moved the front lines of modernism forward and more than 130 years later it still attacks the reader with undiminished force. Maldoror is the first Swedish edition of Lautréamont's collected works. In addition to Maldoror's Songs, the book also contains the never-before-translated Poems I and II, which give the appearance of being a conversion in which Ducasse corrects both his own and others' authorship in the direction of hope, as well as letters and two apocryphal texts attributed to Lautréamont.

Alastor Press's first edition of "Maldoror" was the publisher's first book and sold out quickly. In 2008 we followed up with a revised, expanded edition, also translated and annotated by Elias Wraak.

Title: Maldoror – collected works
Original title: Les chants de Maldoror
Author: Lautréamont
Language: Swedish
Translator: Elias Wraak
Designer: Susanne Johansson

Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
Published: 2001 & 2008 (expanded edition)

ISBN: 9789189633001 & 9789189633155

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Alastor Press is a Swedish independent publisher with a focus on literature that moves in the dark, esoteric and artistically distinctive. The publisher is known for its careful editions of both classic and contemporary works in areas such as decadence, symbolism, horror and philosophical fiction. With an eye for the obscure and cult, Alastor Press highlights writing that challenges, seduces and lingers.