The Flowers Of Evil & Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
A landmark collection of poems and prose pieces that confronts modern urban life and the artist’s conflicted soul, balancing lofty aspirations with spleen—ennui, despair, and moral decay—and finding strange beauty in vice, sensuality, and death. Rich, often shocking imagery and musical language indict bourgeois complacency, explore erotic and satanic temptations, and examine alienation and the search for transcendence; the shorter prose poems sharpen these themes into epigrammatic sketches of Parisian life, melancholy, and the grotesque.
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- Published
- 1857
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- Le Spleen de Paris
- Les Fleurs du mal
- Paris Spleen
- Petits poèmes en prose
- Small Poems in Prose
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