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The Poems and Prose. E-book. Formato EPUB Charles Baudelaire - Raanan Editeur, 2020 -
Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Paris Spleen or Petits Poèmes en prose, is a collection of 50 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. The collection was published posthumously in 1869 and is associated with literary modernism.He said of his work: "These are the flowers of evil again, but with more freedom, much more detail, and much more mockery." Indeed, many of the themes and even titles from Baudelaire's earlier collection Les Fleurs du mal are revisited in this work.These poems have no particular order, have no beginning and no end and they can be read like thoughts or short stories in a stream of consciousness style. The point of the poems is "to capture the beauty of life in the modern city," using what Jean-Paul Sartre has labeled as being his existential outlook on his surroundings.Published twenty years after the fratricidal June Days that ended the ideal or "brotherly" revolution of 1848, Baudelaire makes no attempts at trying to reform society he has grown up in but realizes the inequities of the progressing modernization of Paris. In poems such as "The Eyes of the Poor" where he writes (after witnessing an impoverished family looking in on a new cafe): "Not only was I moved by that family of eyes, but I felt a little ashamed of our glasses and decanters, larger than our thirst...", showing his feelings of despair and class guilt...|Wikipedia|
The Flowers of Evil. E-book. Formato EPUB Charles Baudelaire - Raanan Editeur, 2020 -
Baudelaire was a slow and very attentive worker. However, he often was sidetracked by indolence, emotional distress and illness, and it was not until 1857 that he published Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), his first and most famous volume of poems. Some of these poems had already appeared in the Revue des deux mondes (Review of Two Worlds) in 1855, when they were published by Baudelaire's friend Auguste Poulet Malassis. Some of the poems had appeared as "fugitive verse" in various French magazines during the previous decade.The principal themes of sex and death were considered scandalous for the period. He also touched on lesbianism, sacred and profane love, metamorphosis, melancholy, the corruption of the city, lost innocence, the oppressiveness of living, and wine. Notable in some poems is Baudelaire's use of imagery of the sense of smell and of fragrances, which is used to evoke feelings of nostalgia and past intimacy.The book, however, quickly became a byword for unwholesomeness among mainstream critics of the day. Some critics called a few of the poems "masterpieces of passion, art and poetry," but other poems were deemed to merit no less than legal action to suppress them. J. Habas led the charge against Baudelaire, writing in Le Figaro: "Everything in it which is not hideous is incomprehensible, everything one understands is putrid." Baudelaire responded to the outcry in a prophetic letter to his mother: "You know that I have always considered that literature and the arts pursue an aim independent of morality. Beauty of conception and style is enough for me. But this book, whose title (Fleurs du mal) says everything, is clad, as you will see, in a cold and sinister beauty. It was created with rage and patience. Besides, the proof of its positive worth is in all the ill that they speak of it. The book enrages people. Moreover, since I was terrified myself of the horror that I should inspire, I cut out a third from the proofs. They deny me everything, the spirit of invention and even the knowledge of the French language. I don't care a rap about all these imbeciles, and I know that this book, with its virtues and its faults, will make its way in the memory of the lettered public, beside the best poems of V. Hugo, Th. Gautier and even Byron."|Wikipedia|
Les fleurs du mal. E-book. Formato EPUB Charles Baudelaire - Raanan Editeur, 2020 -
Les Fleurs du mal est un recueil de poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, englobant la quasi-totalité de sa production en vers, de 1840 jusqu'à sa mort survenue fin août 1867.Publié le 23 août 1857, le livre scandalise aussitôt la société conformiste et soucieuse de respectabilité.C'est une œuvre majeure de la poésie moderne. Ses 163 pièces rompent avec le style convenu, en usage jusqu'alors. Elle rajeunit la structure du vers par l'usage régulier d'enjambements, de rejets et de contre-rejets. Elle rénove la forme rigide du sonnet. Elle utilise des images suggestives en procédant à des associations souvent inédites, tel l' « Ange cruel qui fouette des soleils » (Le Voyage). Elle mêle langage savant et parler quotidien. Rompant avec un romantisme qui, depuis un demi-siècle, loue la Nature jusqu'à la banaliser, elle célèbre la ville et plus particulièrement Paris.Elle diffère d'un recueil classique, où souvent le seul hasard réunit des poèmes généralement disparates. Ceux-ci s'articulent avec méthode et selon un dessein précis, pour chanter avec une sincérité absolue : la souffrance d'ici-bas considérée selon le dogme chrétien du péché originel, qui implique l'expiation ; le dégoût du mal — et souvent de soi-même ; l'obsession de la mort ; l'aspiration à un monde idéal, accessible par de mystérieuses correspondances.Nourrie de sensations physiques que la mémoire restitue avec acuité, elle exprime une nouvelle esthétique où l'art poétique juxtapose la palette mouvante des sentiments humains et la vision lucide d'une réalité parfois triviale à la plus ineffable beauté.|Wikipedia|