Paris Spleen

Paris Spleen
ISBN-10
1847491499
ISBN-13
9781847491497
Series
Paris Spleen
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
103
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Oneworld Classics
Author
Charles Baudelaire

Description

A brand new translation, with dual text, of one of the founding texts of literary modernism Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, "The Flowers of Evil" the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, "The Spleen of Paris" was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry--a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age--and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

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