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France portal Literature portal This box: view • talk •Comte de Lautréamont (pronounced [lotʁeaˈmɔ̃] in French) was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French Uruguayan poet whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. Les Chants de Maldoror is often described as the first surrealist book. He died at the young age of 24
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