Chants de Maldoror (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Chants de Maldoror》(英語表記)ChantsdeMaldoror
Chants de Maldoror (English spelling)

…He remained obscure for a long time after his death, but after the 20th century, when he was highly praised by surrealists such as Breton and Aragon, he suddenly became famous as a pioneer of surrealism and as a genius poet on a par with Rimbaud. His self-published prose poetry collection, Chants de Maldoror (1869), consists of six parts, and sings in passionate words of rebellion and curse against God, and love and hatred for humanity, with Maldoror, the incarnation of evil, as the protagonist. There is a strange harmony between unrestrained fantasy, mathematical precision, the outpouring of deep psychological emotion, and concrete expression. On the other hand, his Poesies, Preface to the Book of the Future (1870), published under his real name, takes a completely different approach, praising good deeds and faith and expressing an attitude of absolute affirmation, which is one of the mysteries of his work. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Chants de Maldoror" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…死後も長く埋もれたままであったが,20世紀に入ってブルトン,アラゴンらのシュルレアリストたちによって激賞されて以来,シュルレアリスムの先駆者として,またランボーと並ぶ天才詩人として一躍有名になった。自費出版の散文詩集《マルドロールの歌Chants de Maldoror》(1869)は,六つの部分から成り,悪の化身マルドロールを主人公に,神への反逆と呪詛,人類への愛と憎悪を激越な言葉で歌い上げているが,そこでは奔放な幻想と数学的な正確さ,深層心理的情念の噴出と即物的表現とがふしぎな一致をみせている。一方,本名で出版された《ポエジー,未来の書の序》(1870)は,一転して善行と信仰をたたえ,絶対的肯定の態度を表明していて,彼の謎の一つとなっている。…

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