{"id":13548,"date":"2013-03-19T02:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13548"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:46:02","slug":"maldoror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/03\/19\/maldoror\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldoror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/43307529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/maldoror.jpg\" alt=\"maldoror.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lautr\u00e9amont&#8217;s <em>Les Chants de Maldoror<\/em> continues to provoke attempts at visual illustration. B. Oliver-White&#8217;s brief Super-8 film borrows some text from the Fourth Canto which is complemented by vague and grainy shots resembling outtakes from <em>Eraserhead<\/em>. Given the difficulties of fixing <em>Maldoror<\/em>&#8216;s shifting terrain this seems a better approach than more literal depictions. Watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/43307529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/14\/books-of-blood\/\">Books of blood<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/18\/magrittes-maldoror\/\">Magritte\u2019s Maldoror<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/03\/13\/frans-de-geeteres-illustrated-maldoror\/\">Frans De Geetere\u2019s illustrated Maldoror<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/02\/maldoror-illustrated\/\">Maldoror illustrated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lautr\u00e9amont&#8217;s Les Chants de Maldoror continues to provoke attempts at visual illustration. B. Oliver-White&#8217;s brief Super-8 film borrows some text from the Fourth Canto which is complemented by vague and grainy shots resembling outtakes from Eraserhead. Given the difficulties of fixing Maldoror&#8216;s shifting terrain this seems a better approach than more literal depictions. Watch it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/03\/19\/maldoror\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maldoror&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,7],"tags":[510,4046],"class_list":["post-13548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film","tag-lautreamont","tag-maldoror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sq7rV-maldoror","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}