Charles Baudelaire

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...

<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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