Les fleurs du mal

Baudelaire''s "Les Fleurs du Mal" marks the intrusion of modernity into the French poetic tradition. The carefully ordered collection (here presented in its 1861 edition) betrays a frighteningly honest poet grappling witha sense of his own deep spiritual imperfection, a recognition too of his creative difficulty and an ambivalent teetering on the boundary between the radical and the conservative. As no other poet had done before (and only a few have managed since), Baudelaire sustains in a single collection an exploration of sin, suffering, love, sexual desire, memory, beauty, the city, and the fundamental human impulse towards the new and the unknown - and all this in verse that resonates with a fresh timbre and persuades through its mysterious ''rhetorique profonde''. This critical edition urges the reader to join the poet in his journey from benediction to death, to become a fellow traveller along the route towards ''le nouveau''.>

Product details

• Authors: Charles Baudelaire
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: French
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9781853993442
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-344-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 217 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Fiction > Poetry, drama; French, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets