Songs of Maldorore. Ducass Isidor-Lusen (Lotreamon)

This book shocked and shocked contemporaries with the concentration of evil, which is exuded by its pages. Publishers did not publish her, fearing persecution by the church and the state. The unknown French poet, hiding under the pseudonym, challenged morality and hypocrisy, singing, perhaps, all the vices known to humanity. Without “songs” and “poems”, the aesthetics of symbolism and surrealism would be unthinkable. Lotreamon breathed into French and world poetry a new spirit - stench and collapse, rapture of sin and endless despair.