Complex sentence: Les Chants de Maldoror ("The Songs of Maldoror") is a poetic novel consisting of six cantos written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautreamont, which was the pseudonym used by Isidore Lucien Ducasse.
Split into simpler sentences: Les Chants de Maldoror ("The Songs of Maldoror") is a poetic novel consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautreamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse.