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17507870 No.17507870 [Reply] [Original]

Who is the English Lautréamont?

>> No.17507875

>>17507870
Nick Land.

>> No.17507877

>>17507875
They aren’t similar at all

>> No.17508135

The who?

>> No.17508149

>>17508135
>not knowing Lautréamont
>being smug about it
the absolute state of /lit/

>> No.17508473

>>17507870
Burroughs, ballard, the influence of french transgressive literature took long to percolate into the english language.

>> No.17508970

>>17507870
Lautréamont draws heavily from the English gothic novelists, Thomas de Quincy, etc. It's not like he created something wholly original and specifically 'French'.

>> No.17508980

>>17507870
Matthew Lewis
Charles Maturin

>> No.17510147

>>17508970
could you elaborate on that? I'm a big fan of Lautréamont and I've read Confessions of an English opium eater and the book about murder but I cannot really see an obvious connection... what books and other writers are you thinking of?

>> No.17510726

>>17508149

You don't know that that anon (who I am not) had a smug intent.

>> No.17510998

>>17510726
No but I can guess