In making this argument he was drawing on the early work of Julia Kristeva who also found such subversion of meaning in French poets such as Mallarmé and Lautréamont.
Inspired by the Surrealist poet Lautréamont, she exhibited at La Hune in Paris, attracting the attention of André Breton, Man Ray, René Char and Albert Camus.
Hotel Lautréamont is a 1992 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery.
Inspired by a well-known passage of Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, Martin holds a belief, in which he claims to be "the son of a female shark".
The project was inspired by excerpts from the 19th century French writer, Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror.