Les Fleurs Du Mal: The Complete Text of The Flowers of Evil

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David R. Godine Publisher, 1982 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 365 pages

The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard.

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time.

In "Spleen et idéal," Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and anguish--of sexual and romantic love. "Tableaux Parisiens" condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul and praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. "Le Vin" centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of "Fleurs du Mal" while rebellion is at the heart of "Révolte."

The voice of Baudelaire lives in this award-winning edition that includes monotypes by artist, Michael Mazur. "Howard's achievement is such that we can be confident that this Fleurs du Mal will long stand as definitive, a superb guide to France's greatest poet."--The Nation

 

Selected pages

Contents

To The Reader
5
I
11
The Sick Muse
18
Beauty
24
The Head of Hair
30
De Profundis Clamavi
36
Possessed
42
Against Her Levity
48
The Fountain
161
To a Malabar Girl
168
Romantic Sunset
169
LA MORT
183
Une nuit que jétais près dune affreuse Juive
216
Semper Eadem
223
LAube spirituelle
229
LInvitation au voyage
235

Poison
54
Conversation One Side
61
Incubus
67
The Cask of Hate
73
Sympathetic Horror
79
Parisian Landscape
87
The Little Old Women
94
Gamblers
100
Parisian Dream
106
The Soul of the Wine
113
Destruction
121
Damned Women
129
Saint Peters Denial
141
Chanson daprèsmidi
241
Paysage
265
Les Petites Vieilles
272
Le Jeu
278
LAme du vin
291
La Destruction
299
Femmes damnées
307
LAmour et le Crâne
314
Abel et Caïn
320
Le Jet deau
339
A une malabaraise
346
Recueillement
352
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About the author (1982)

Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work explored taboo areas of sensuality and sexuality. His highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis (such as mid-19th century Paris), and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Richard Howard was one of the most prolific and respected twentieth-century literary critics and translators. He won a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, a National Book Award (for Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) ), a Literary Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a MacArthur Fellowship, the title of Chevalier from France's L'Ordre National du Merite, and the position of Poet Laureate of New York.

Bibliographic information

TitleLes Fleurs Du Mal: The Complete Text of The Flowers of Evil
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorCharles Baudelaire
Translated byRichard Howard
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherDavid R. Godine Publisher, 1982
ISBN0879234628, 9780879234621
Length365 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting
Poetry / European / French
Poetry / General
Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Places
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
  
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