After an "evil viper has taken over his penis" and a crab his anus, in the last canto the narrator seduces and then hangs from the Pantheon a young man named Mervyn.
Six consecutive passages at the end of this work's second canto begin, "With her head in my hand, gnawing the skull" before describing the title narrator's symbolic beheading of three young girls. After an "evil viper has taken over his penis" and a crab his anus, in the last canto the narrator seduces and then hangs from the Pantheon a young man named Mervyn. Written under a pseudonym by Isidore Ducasse and called "a revelation" by Andre Breton, FTP name this work in which the narrator swears fealty to "murder, shit, and evil," a book of poetry that inspired many surrealist artists and was published under the name Comte de Lautremont.
Six consecutive passages at the end of this work's second canto begin, "With her head in my hand, gnawing the skull" before describing the title narrator's symbolic beheading of three young girls.
Les Chants de {Maldoror} (or The Songs of {Maldoror}) (6) [CB]