Tragic fate pursues Isidore Ducasse from his childhood. At the age of two, he witnesses the suicide of Celestine, his mother, on Christmas Eve 1847. At the age of eighteen, holding a baccalaureate and with some of his unfinished Songs in hand he takes on the pseudonym "Count of Lautreamont" and enters the literary world of Paris and Brussels. Rejected by publishers, the young writer abandons his studies and takes on a life of luxury at his father's expense. The Franco-Prussian War breaks out. Decadence overtakes his guardian, leaving him practically penniless in South America. At the age of...

Un destin tragique poursuit Isidore Ducasse depuis son origine. A l'age de deux ans, il est temoin du suicide de Celestine, sa mere, survenu en 1847, pendant la nuit de Noel. Quand il a treize ans, a cause des pestes et des guerres en Uruguay, il est embarque dans un navire par le chancelier Francois Ducasse, son pere, afin de recevoir une education dans le sud de la France ou il subira de terribles crises d'angoisse et les rigueurs des pedophiles dans les prisons scolaires de Tarbes et de Pau. A 18 ans, ayant en main un bachot et quelques Chants inacheves, il adopte le pseudonyme Comte de...