Title : The Spleen of Paris - Short Poems in Prose - Charles Baudelaire - book

Summary :

When he began to publish his short prose poems in magazines and newspapers, Baudelaire, although he modestly called them "bagatelles," was fully aware of their singularity. And we now know better that what was being inaugurated in a crucial way in these texts, which aimed to capture the strangeness of the everyday life of his time, was nothing less than a new literary form. Rimbaud and Mallarmé would soon remember this - and many others after them.
Although the poet had been thinking about it since 1857, the year of Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Spleen de Paris was not published until two years after his death, in 1869. His prose poems were, in his eyes, the "counterpart" of his verse pieces, and the two books, in fact, echo each other in many ways. But, unlike Les Fleurs du Mal , this is not a composite collection that is offered to us: rather, a space of freedom, where the ßâneur testifies to a new perspective on modern man for whom reality multiplies its images.

• EAN: 9782253161202
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