It was in Poe’s work, which Isidore Ducasse makes reference to several times, that he found the inspiring figure of the maelstrom, that tornado in the water which, with its centrifugal and centripetal movements, was to inspire the very structure of the Chants de Maldoror. Nevertheless, this is not Ducasse’s only borrowing from the work of the American short-story writer, whom he probably discovered by way of Baudelaire.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques