Charles Baudelaire
109 кн.
First published posthumously in 1869, «Paris Spleen» is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's «Gaspard de la Nuit – Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot» or «Gaspard of the Night – Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot», Baudelaire remarked that he had read Bertrand's work at least twenty times for starting «Paris Spleen». A commentary on Parisian contemporary life, Baudelaire remarked on his work that «These...
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<P>Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words «dangerous»—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of the lyrical with the sardonic, Le Spleen de Paris may be regarded as one of the...
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"The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Cyril Scott). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
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Les Flers du Mal, translated as The Flowers of Evil (first published in 1857), originally condemned as obscene, is recognized as a masterpiece, especially remarkable for the brilliant phrasing, rhythm, and expressiveness of its lyrics. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century. His work has been a major influence on Western poetry and modern poetry in general as, thematically, he was one of the first poets whose subject was often urban life and its...
| Автор | Charles Baudelaire |