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Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
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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
| Published | Jan 01 1998 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781853993442 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 215 x 137 mm |
| Series | French Texts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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