Paris Spleen

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By Charles Baudelaire

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Paris Spleen paints a vivid portrait of urban life in modern Paris, delving into the city's squalor, social inequalities, and the relentless passage of time. Charles Baudelaire explores themes of mortality and liberation through sensual experiences involving intoxication, art, and women, continuing the legacy of his acclaimed poetry collection, The Flowers of Evil. Published posthumously in 1869, these prose pieces mark a pioneering step in the evolution of prose poetry and literary modernism.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in 19th-century literature, literary modernism, and explorations of urban life’s complexities through poetic prose.

One of the founding texts of literary modernism.

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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, Paris Spleen 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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John Randolph of the Chicago Tribune praises the book’s rhythm, noting: "The cadenced prose beats in perfect time with the pulse of the slumbering city, where only the strange is awake. The atmosphere is old, dirty, often sordid, and yet, somehow, glorious... The translation is almost perfect."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780811200073

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 January 1970

Country: United States

Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Contributors:

Translated by Louise Varèse
Translated by Louise Varèse

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 145g

Pages: 118

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Charles Baudelaire Non-Fiction

About the Author

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations, and prose poems have been equally influential.