Les Chants de Maldoror

…stanza of Lautréamont’s prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror was published anonymously in 1868. A complete edition was printed in 1869, but the Belgian publisher, alarmed by its violence and fearing prosecution, refused to distribute it to booksellers. The Poésies, a shorter work, was printed in June 1870. Lautréamont died…