Translator R.J. Dent: "You Don't Find Maldoror—It ... - LitReactor
I have seen the female shark in the wake of the shipwreck, her fins cutting the water like a guillotine through silk, and I have found in her the only embrace that does not taste of betrayal. We shall couple beneath the foam, a union of scales and scars, while the stars above—those "hypocritical eyes" of the firmament—watch in frozen horror. Songs of Maldoror
The book, originally published in 1868, is famous for its "black humor," blasphemy, and the iconic imagery of Maldoror's rebellion against God and humanity. The Hymn of the Carrion-Sky Translator R