Tag Archives: Isidore Ducasse

Maurice Blanchot’s ‘The Experience of Lautréamont’

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

My slumbers—if I slumber—are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought…. The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. —Lord Byron, Manfred Maurice Blanchot’s book Lautréamont and Sade (“Sade’s Reason” followed by the much longer essay, “The Experience … Continue reading →

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Wallace Fowlie’s Lautréamont

Posted on August 8, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

Parle, et, puisque, d’après tes vœux les plus chers, l’on ne souffrirait pas, dis en quoi consisterait alors la vertu, idéal que chacun s’efforce d’atteindre, si ta langue est faite comme celle des autres hommes. —Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants … Continue reading →

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Agamben on Twilight

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Mark Kerstetter

Twilight As the weight of day bears down and night’s promise advances, memory and loss in equal shares emerge in a standoff. Will and fancy, knowledge and flight become unlikely workmates and vision pushes focus against the last flakes of silver backing … Continue reading →

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Out of the Shadows with Maldoror

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Parle, et, puisque, d’après tes vœux les plus chers, l’on ne souffrirait pas, dis en quoi consisterait alors la vertu, idéal que chacun s’efforce d’atteindre, si ta langue est faite comme celle des autres hommes. —Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror … Continue reading →

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Maldoror is Not Surrealism

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

  If this video weren’t already long enough, I could have, if I wished to be helpful, drawn more comparisons between Maldoror and Surrealism, something about how Breton surely recognized the Sadean character of Maldoror, about how he wanted as … Continue reading →

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