Les Chants de Maldoror is based around a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has forsaken God and mankind. The book combines an obscene and violent narrative with vivid and often surrealistic imagery. In 1917, French writer Philippe Soupault discovered a copy of "Les Chan

Atmospheric, Baroque, Excessive, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Perverse, Rebel, Surrealist poetry, Violent, Visceral

Anxiety, Baroque, Bubblicious, Chance, Discourse as event, Improvised, Ironic, Joyful, Neurotic, Perverse, Phenomenology, Playful, Repetition

De Sade's writing is the endless elaboration of a single principle: "Virtue is vice, and vice is virtue" -- an incitement to debauchery, depravity, and decadence, and a testament to the value of the animal passions. But de Sade didn't merely celebrate and praise acts of sexual perversion and violence

Agitated, Erotic, Excessive, Literature of transgression, Perverse, Phallic, Primal, Repetitive, Violent

It's rare that a biographer has a life more interesting than his own subjects, but Lytton Strachey was a biography waiting to happen. The eleventh child of an Indian civil engineer and the essayist Lady Jane Strachey, Lytton went from being a proper history student at Cambridge to living life as a de

Bloomsbury, Clever, Excessive, Glamour, Perverse, Profane