[Isidore Ducasse] Le Comte de Lautréamont
Les Chants de Maldoror
Paris et Bruxelles, en vente chez tous les libraires, 1874.
In August 1868, the first canto of Les Chants de Maldoror was published, printed at the expense of the author — who remained anonymous — by Balitout, Questroy et Cie. Isidore Ducasse was then twenty-two years old, with a life of little outward incident behind him, one whose extreme interiority left few traces: just enough…
