Paris Spleen, And La Fanfarlo Av Charles Baudelaire

One of the founding texts of literary modernism.

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...

Maria Scott''s study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire''s Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection''s spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators...

Imaginative and haunting new translations by Ian Brinton of the 18 poems in the 'Tableaux Parisiens' section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, with evocative illustrations by Sally Castle. Includes the poems in their original French side...