Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Comte de Lautréamont
Born: April 4, 1846
Died: November 24, 1870 (aged 24)
Bio: Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
Known for:
- Les Chants de Maldoror
- Maldoror and Poems
- Poésies and complete miscellanea
- Oeuvres complètes







