Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the macabre 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror.
SPREADING MY WINGS INTO MY TORTURED MEMORY
This stanza starts out with vague hints about what is going on but gradually becomes clearer.
The supernatural being Maldoror finds himself haunted by the ghost of the first person he ever killed. In an account that – naturally – contradicts some of the versions of his past that he has previously related, our protagonist recalls what happened. Continue reading
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