Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new-and in his own words dangerous -hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of the lyrical with the sardonic, Le Spleen de Paris may be regarded as one of the earliest and most successful examples of a specifically urban writing, the textual equivalent of the city scenes of the Impressionists. In this compelling new translation, Keith Waldrop delivers the companion to his innovative translation of The Flowers of Evil. Here, Waldrop's perfectly modulated mix releases the music, intensity, and dissonance in Baudelaire's prose. The result is a powerful new re-imagining that is closer to Baudelaire's own poetry than any previous English translation.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of New England
ISBN-13
9780819569097
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94748747
Product Key Features
Book Title
Paris Spleen
Author
Charles Baudelaire
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
124 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Charles Baudelaire
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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