Regarding the Demise Of the Entire Race Of Men

The antinatalism of Les Chants de Maldoror

Picture taken by the author from his copy of The Dirges of Maldoror — An illustrated English translation by Gavin L. O’Keefe of Les Chants de Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse [Le Comte de Lautréamont]

Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, the author of Maldoror, died in 1870 at 24. But the vile and violent beast he created left a distinctive mark in the realm of un- and anti-human literature, which inspired generations of writers of the occult, the macabre, and the Gothic. The souls…