Paris Spleen : Dual-Language Edition

Name: Paris Spleen : Dual-Language Edition
Brand: Charles Baudelaire
SKU: 9781847499035
Price: 8.24 GBP
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by Charles Baudelaire

Title:

Author:

Charles Baudelaire

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

224 pages

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing plc

ISBN-13:

9781847499035

EAN:

9781847499035

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

322

Dimensions (mm):

196 x 130 x 15

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£8.24

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Description

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.