Maldoror, which greatly influenced the Surrealist movement when a copy was discovered on an old shelf, is full of imagery and poetic ranting, some of it completely random (a man with a pelican-head with a dung beetle for instance, or god's enormous pubic-hair) all meant to shock and affect the reader in some way. My personal favorite section was the hermaphrodite, in which Lautreamont sketches the life of such a person as one would an angel. It brilliantly stands out amidst the chapters of monsters and Maldoror's ambivalence towards mankind.