comte de Lautréamont

comte de Lautréamont (born April 4, 1846, Montevideo, Uruguay—died November 24, 1870, Paris, France) was a poet, a strange and enigmatic figure in French literature, who is recognized as a major influence on the Surrealists. The son of a chancellor in the French consulate, Lautréamont was sent to France for schooling; he studied at the imperial lycées in Tarbes (1859–62) and Pau (1863–65). He set out for Paris in 1867, ostensibly to attend the École...