Charles Baudelaire: Paris Spleen - French-English Bilingual Edition

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil:...
ISBN: 9781847499035
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Page: 214
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2023
Format: Book
Publisher: ALMA BOOKS
Language: French

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...the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.

Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in thedevelopment of the genre of prose poetry – a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age – and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

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