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Titre:
The flowers of evil

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Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes an introduction from the translator, acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown.

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Salon of 1846, Charles Baudelaire

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'The Salon of 1846' expands upon the tenets of romanticism as Baudelaire methodically takes his reader through paintings by Delacroix and Ingres, illuminating his belief that the pursuit of the ideal must be paramount in artistic expression. Here we also see Baudelaire caught in a fundamental struggle with the urban commodity of capitalism developing in Paris at that time. Baudelaire’s text proves to be a useful lens for understanding art criticism in mid-nineteenth-century France, as well as the changing opinions regarding the essential nature of romanticism and the artist as creative genius.

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Les fleurs du mal illustrées par Matisse

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Extraire la beauté du mal, transfigurer par le travail poétique l'expérience douloureuse de l'âme humaine en proie aux malheurs de l'existence. Oeuvre d'un poète partagé entre ses propres contradictions, s'inspirant autant de la réalité que d'un idéal abstrait, Les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire furent l'objet lors de leur publication d'un procès pour délit d'outrage à la morale publique. En 1944, Henri Matisse illustre cette oeuvre de 34 dessins de visages.

Titre:
The flowers of evil / Les fleurs du mal

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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.