The term “poète maudit” (cursed poet) is taken from the title of Paul Verlaine’s collection of essays on Mallarmé, Rimbaud and other poets, Les poètes maudits (1884), and denotes a poet who lives outside the norms of conventional society. Jünger, for instance, experimented with drugs thoughout his life as he recorded in his book, Annäherungen (1970).