The publication includes the works of the French writer Lotreamon (real name Isidore Lucien Ducasse, 1846-1870), who, along with authors such as S. Mallarmé or A. Rem, made the "poetic revolution" of the second half of the 19th century. and paved the way for the avant-garde and trans-avant-garde of the next century. Along with the rebellious "Songs of Maldoror" (1869) and the provocative "Poems" (1870), literary and critical responses to the poet's work are published - from late symbolists and surrealists to modern postmodernists (Remy de Gourmont, A. Breton, L. Aragon, F. Supo, G. Bachelard, Blanchot, A. Camus, Yu. Kristeva, etc.). The publication also included an article by G. Kosikov "Infernal Machine" by Lotreamon.