Poesías : I y II

Isidore-Lucien Ducasse was born on April 4, 1846, in Montevideo, and died at the age of 24 in Paris on November 24, 1870. His impact on poetry and art, however, was enormous, as his texts circulated among the most discerning writers and readers of the French capital, especially under the pseudonym that made him famous: the Count of Lautréamont. Ducasse's creative output consists of only three works: Les Chants de Maldoror, also published by Letras Universales, and the two slim volumes collected in this collection, titled Poesies I and Poesies II. In them, he carries out a radical exercise in writing that anticipates techniques not seen again until decades later, when some of the most important authors of Surrealism and the avant-garde movements declared him among their models.