name: Comte de Lautréamont
birth_date: 1846-04-04 00:00:00
death_date: 1870-11-24 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Sui Generis, Literature & Fiction
influences: Adam Mickiewicz, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred de Musset, Robert Southey, François de La Rochefoucauld, Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire,  Blaise Pascal, John Milton, Luis de Góngora y Argote, Lo
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about: Comte de Lautréamont (French pronunciation: [lotʁeaˈmɔ̃]) was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, a Uruguayan-born French poet. Little is known about his life and he wished to leave no memoirs. He died at the age of 24 in Paris.His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists (similarly to Baudelaire and Rimbaud) and the Situationists. Comte de Lautréamont is one of the poètes maudits and a precursor to Surrealism.