Trivia / Les Chants de Maldoror

• No Export for You: Given its relative obscurity among English audiences, coupled with a nigh-untranslatable writing style, few English translations exist (and even then there's still wild debate about which translation is the best, or whether any of them are good in the first place).
• Vindicated by History: Went unnoticed during its original publication, and probably would have remained unnoticed (if not outright unknown) had not Philippe Soupault stumbled across it in the mathematics section of a small Paris bookshop some forty-odd years later.

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