Lautreamont and parody

Almost all critical studies concerning Lautreamont allude to a strong presence of parody in his works, but no methodological study is to be found, exclusively dedicated to this matter. This is because; parody has been, for very long, marginalized by literary critics, and that it was not valued and rehabilitated by literature, literary critic and poetic, before the 20th century. This article, belonging to the intertextuality line, seeks to study the modality of the presence of this technique or, according to some literary theorists, thisliterary genre, and its’ functions in Les Chants de Maldoror. What appears here, is not solely the abundant presence of different themes and scleroses literary disparate originated discourses, but also the involvement of literary notions such as, genre, writing and reading.