Tragic fate pursues Isidore Ducasse from his childhood, when, at
the age of two, he witnesses the suicide of Celestine, his mother,
on Christmas Eve 1847. When he is thirteen, due to epidemics and
wars in Uruguay, the boy is put on a ship by his father, Francois
Ducasse, to be educated in the south of France. There he suffers
horrific anguish and resists the approaches of paedophiles within
the scholastic prisons of Tarbes and Pau. 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, a precursor of surrealism, abandons his studies
and takes on a life of luxury at his father's expense. When
everything begins to go well in the life of this precocious dandy,
contemporary of Mallarme, behold, his father deserts him. In 1870
the Franco-Prussian War breaks out. Decadence overtakes his
guardian, the banker Jean Darasse, leading him into bankruptcy as
he does with Francois Ducasse, leaving him practically penniless in
South America, a region that is also in flames. At the age of
twenty-four and profoundly depressed at the carnage of bodies
piling up in the streets of Paris, the young writer ingests a
mortal cocktail and picks up his razor, thus fulfilling his
prophecy: "Upon awakening, my razor, opening a pathway across my
neck, will prove that nothing, actually, is more true..."
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