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Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition - 9781847499035

Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition

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Author: Baudelaire, Charles, Sorrell, Martin

Literature & literary studies

Published on 24 August 2023 by Alma Books Ltd (Alma Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 256 pages
196 x 130 x 15 | 208g

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 with all 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 form 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.