History Literature / LesChantsDeMaldoror

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Poésies'' in comparison with ''Les Chants de Maldoror''.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in the case of Maldoror’s victim Mervyn, a handsome, golden-haired youth [[spoiler: who gets killed by being attached to a giant sling and flung at the dome of the Pantheon, where his skeletal remains are left because nobody wants to take them off.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Decadent and surrealist writers used to portrait Lautréamont as an evil and mad genius in perpetual war against god and humanity. When the true identity of Isidore Ducasse was discovered, some testimonies could be gathered, mainly from former high school mates. Most of them trend to have fond memories of Ducasse and describes him as a person who can function quite well in society. But everybody agreed that he was socially akward and definetly had some kind of psychiatric condition. Probably something more "mundane" like depression, anxiety issues or PTSD. Some schoolar believes he was closeted gay and that most of his angst came from hide his sexuals preferences. 150 years after his death and without a proper medical inform, we can only guess.
* Bookends: How his life could be resumed. He was born in Montevideo, 1846 during the Great Siege Montevideo [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Montevideo]]. He died in Paris, 1870, during the Siege of Paris [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(1870%E2%80%931871)]].
* BrilliantButLazy: He was fluent in english, french and spanish since childhood and an avid reader in these three languages. Judging by his school grades and by encylopedic knowdledge he shows in ''Les Chants de Maldoror'', he could be an outstanding student if he puts his mind into. But normaly he was more interested in reading and writting his own literature.
* FreakierThanFiction: Reading ''Les Chants de Maldoror'' could be a bizarre and grimm experience. Some stories that the young Isidore heard about the Uruguayan Civil War [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Civil_War]], and the lawless land that was rural Uruguay in those times are even worse.
* MeaningfulName: His pen name Comte de Lautréamont sounds in french almost identical to Comte de L'autre monde (The Count from other world) a very apropiate name for this kind of writer. But also could be Comte de L'autre Mont, with the ''Mont'' standing for Montevideo, the place where he was born.
* RiddleForTheAges: As we only know a few facts about him, most of his life fall under this trope. Here are some examples:
** His death: We know that he died with 24 years, in a renting room in Paris, on 24th November of 1870, but exactly what killed him it's a mistery. Living conditions weren't good during the Siege Paris with food shortages and diseases like tuberculosis going rampant, but we could only asume that this situation had something to do with his death.
** Were are his remains, if they still exist today it's another mistery. He was buried on a temporary basis in the Montmartre Cementery, but what happened after that it's unknown.
** Even his physical appearance is a mistery. Written descriptions about him are quite subjetive and contradict each other. If you google ''Isidore Ducasse'' or ''Comte de Lautréamont'' two photographies will appear. This photos were discovered in 1970 (a century after his death) in an album that belongs to his host family, during his high school years in Tarbes, France. So everybody agrees, that the man in the photos is probably him, but nobody can tell it for sure.

* ShroudedInMyth: Decadent and surrealist artists loved to tales histories about the life and times of Comte de Lautréamont. That was until his trues identity as Isidore Ducasse came to light and researchers could pick up some facts about his life.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Poésies'' in comparation with ''Les Chants de Maldoror''.
* VindicatedByHistory: An unknown author during his lifetime. Nowadays is considered one of the founders of contemporany literature.

** His death: We know that he died with 24 years, in a renting room in París, on 24th November of 1870, but exactly what killed him it's a mistery. Living conditions weren´t good during the Siege Paris with food shortages and diseases like tuberculosis going rampant, but we could only asume that this situation had something to do with his death.
** Were are his remains: if they still exist today it's another mistery. He was buried on a temporary basis in the Montmartre Cementery, but what happened after that it's unknown.

* RiddleForTheAges: As we only know a few facts about him, most of his life fall under this trope. Here are some examples: His death: We know that he died with 24 years, in a renting room in París, on 24th November of 1870, but exactly what killed him it's a mistery. Living conditions weren´t good during the Siege Paris with food shortages and diseases like tuberculosis going rampant, but we could only asume that this situation had something to do with his death. Were are his remains: if they still exist today it's another mistery. He was buried on a temporary basis in the Montmartre Cementery, but what happened after that it's unknown. Even his physical appearance is a mistery. Written descriptions about him are quite subjetive and contradict each other. If you google ''Isidore Ducasse'' or ''Comte de Lautréamont'' two photographies will appear. This photos were discovered in 1970 (a century after his death) in an album that belongs to his host family, during his high school years in Tarbes, France. So everybody agrees, that the man in the photos is probably him, but nobody can tell it for sure.

* RiddleForTheAges: As we only know a few facts about him, most of his life fall under this trope. Here are some examples:
- His death: We know that he died with 24 years, in a renting room in París, on 24th November of 1870, but exactly what killed him it's a mistery. Living conditions weren´t good during the Siege Paris with food shortages and diseases like tuberculosis going rampant, but we could only asume that this situation had something to do with his death.
- Were are his remains, if they still exist today it's another mistery. He was buried on a temporary basis in the Montmartre Cementery, but what happened after that it's unknown.
- Even his physical appearance is a mistery. Written descriptions about him are quite subjetive and contradict each other. If you google ''Isidore Ducasse'' or ''Comte de Lautréamont'' two photographies will appear. This photos were discovered in 1970 (a century after his death) in an album that belongs to his host family, during his high school years in Tarbes, France. So everybody agrees, that the man in the photos is probably him, but nobody can tell it for sure.