Hashish, Wine, Opium

Zusatztext Reveals to us enchanting and visionary landscapes, and beguiles us with vegetable correspondences, musical transformations and watery expanses. Informationen zum Autor Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier Klappentext "Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier's and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium. As well as providing an absorbing account of nineteenth-century drug use, Hashish, Wine, Opium captures the spirit of French Romanticism in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following century." Zusammenfassung Among the earliest artistic accounts of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Baudelaire, Charles P. Baudelaire, Theophile Gautier, Théophile Gautier
• Assisted by: Maurice Stang (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.03.2012
• EAN: 9781847492876
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-287-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Alma Classics; Alma Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; drug; hallucinogenic; Romanticism