Lautreamont’s Maldoror merely depicts capitalism’s everyday monster

Evidence

The truth is that Lautreamont had only to look the iron man forged by capitalist society squarely in the eye to perceive the monster, the everyday monster, his hero. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 189

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Lautreamont’s Maldoror is a materialist denunciation of bourgeois society. — AimĂ© CĂ©saire, Discourse on Colonialism, 195

Broader Connections