Corbière et Lautréamont : deux maudits ?

Tristan Corbière and Lautréamont never met. Yet nevertheless, an examination of the works and trajectories of these two unusual and profoundly different quasi-contemporaries reveals some similarities, which bear witness to a time when poetry was at a turning point. The iconoclastic collections of these young poets use similar devices, such as humor and irreverence, to reject romanticism and construct poetic modernity.