by
Jaye B.
Back in the early 1980s I read, Les Chants de Maldoror , penned by one Lautréamont aka Isidore Lucien Ducasse, who died quite young at the age of 24. Most memorable were his depictions of savagery in nature, which is actually an issue right now seeing savagery is endangered, as more and more wild animals are becoming domesticated because of habitat loss (tons of videos on YouTube of fat, lazy, spoiled tigers getting belly rubs). I don’t think I could read Lautréamont‘s work like in my early 20s as some of the stuff is pretty out there dark and consistently so. (IMAO-in my arrogant opinion-many of the decadent French writers were possessed by demons so be careful reading them because those demons will come right back looking for a new home to squat in. Such happened to me when I read the French writer J.K. Huysmans’s infamous Là-Bas, a book on satanism which scared the author himself into becoming a Roman Catholic.
Here’s a good Lautréamont quote:
Naturally I pulled the registers in a slightly exaggerated way, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. Thus it is always, after all, the good which is the subject, only the method is more philosophical and less naive than that of the old school. (...) Is that evil? No, certainly not.
— letter from 23 October 1869.
I love the line : I pulled the registers in a slightly exaggerated way. Something I do frequently in my writing, primarily via the lost art of satire.
From Les Chants de Maldoror:
O louse with your shriveled eyes, as long as rivers empty themselves into the depths of seas; as long as the stars remain within their orbits; as long as empty void is without limit; as long as humanity tears itself to shreds in deadly warfare; as long as divine justice casts down its vengeful thunders upon this selfish globe; as long as man misunderstands and flouts (not without reason) his Creator and treats him with contempt, your reign in the universe will be assured and your dynasty will persist from century to century.
Lautréamont no doubt was seeing the louse like archontic parasites at large during his day possessing others and himself too. In this respect he reminds me much of Antonin Artaud who also battled similar forms of evil and wrote about his struggles with them eloquently. So perhaps it is a good thing Isidore died young as he may have ended up in an insane asylum and electroshocked into submission like Artaud.
There’s more to write on how the same evil, Jesuit in nature, that possessed the Marquis d’Sade, moved on and used other human portals to perpetuate its agenda in France-Not only via literature but art, science and philosophy. It did quite well getting it realized. All for an upcoming post.
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Jaye B. is a writer, musician and artist. His art criticism has appeared in Art Paper, New North Artscape, Art Muscle, Northfield Magazine and elsewhere. His articles have also appeared in City Pages, Twin Cities Reader, Mysteries Magazine, Fahrenheit San Diego, High Plains Reader, New Dawn and Rain Taxi. He has appeared on BBC Radio, WGN Chicago, WLW Cincinnati and elsewhere in the mediasphere to discuss his work. Please help support Reset News @ Paypal, Cash App , Ko-fi or contact the author for other options @ jayeb444@protonmail.com
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