Talk:Comte de Lautréamont

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Not sure of usual article placement, should this be under his real name Isidore Ducasse or under his better known pseudonym? Greg Godwin

It's usual to put the article under the name a person is best known by - in this case the pseudonym. However, it's normally best to make a redirect from their real name in case somebody links to that in the future - I've just made such a redirect here: Isidore Ducasse. --Camembert

Slipped my mind completely, cheers Cam! Greg Godwin

I'm afraid that the latest series of additions to this page, while clearly meant in good faith, repeat key information and fail to do so in a way that adheres to the rules of English grammar. In addition, most of the new material is unsourced and the objective view-point has disappeared. Dec. 15th, 2006.
Not at all. It carries much more information now. If improvement in Grammar is needed - please do so! --Phillippp 01:57, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Once again, assuming the good faith of the previous poster as well as those who have "cleaned up" this page, I wish to present reasons for a real consideration of a reversion of the recent edits to this page. Though the previous poster claims "more information" has been added, it is a)redundant information, and, (b) information that has been added in an "essay manner"--i.e. full of loaded language, that effectively destroys the neutral point of view of this article. With these points in mind, I suggest a total reversion to the point just previous to the previous poster's additions to this page. By doing this we will be effectively returning to a neutral point of view. We can then begin to work from there. Suggestions (given in good faith) are welcome. Jesse Glass
Agree with Jesse. Lautreamont is important enough to art/literary history to warrant a major article, but this thing is almost citation-free. Lexo 19:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Great! Let's wait for a few more opinions and then begin. Jeses Glass 19: 40, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
There are some factual as well as myriad grammatical/syntactical errors on this page that should be cleaned up. I am glad to lend a hand. Tim —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nouche (talk • contribs) 16:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC).

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I have a few concerns/queries about this article:

  • There is a phrase in the Youth section: "rhetoric and philosophy (under and uppergreat)." Under and uppergreat mean absolutely nothing to me, leading me to think that this might be a mistake, but if it does make sense, my apologies. A clarification might be in order?
  • Also I have concerns about the section Les Chants de Maldoror - there is a section "60 verses of different length (I/14, II/16, III/5, IV/8, V/7, VI/10), which were originally not numbered". The set of numbers in brackets also makes no sense to me. Help?
the numbers mean I: first canto, /14, fourteen stanzas. I think that the section on the Chants should be moved to the page dedicated to Les Chants de Maldoror.--130.89.166.237 21:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
  • And the references need sorting out, see WP:FOOT for notes on how to reference.
  • Please clarify "André Gide regarded him as the most significant figure, meriting Aragon, Breton and Soupault, "to have recognized and announced the literary..." - what do you mean by meriting?
  • The end of the Surrealism section is very bitty - this either needs more information for each point, or some way of linking the points.

Thanks, Cricketgirl 13:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

There are at least two extant pictures of Msr. Ducasse; one on the cover of the Pleiade Edition of his complete works, and another obtainable with a Google image search. Neither one is probably under copyright. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.65.213.237 (talk) 02:59, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)