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The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal)

The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal)

Baudelaire, Charles
Poochigian, Aaron
Gioia, Dana

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 1324092912
ISBN13: 9781324092919
Publisher: Liveright Pub Corp
Published: Apr 18 2023
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.19
Language: English

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.

First published in 1857, the book that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an instant sensation--earning Baudelaire plaudits and, simultaneously, disrepute. Only a year after Gustave Flaubert had endured his own public trial for published indecency (for Madame Bovary), a French court declared Les Fleurs du mal an offense against public morals and six poems within it were immediately suppressed (a ruling that would not be reversed until 1949, nearly a century after Baudelaire's untimely death). Subsequent editions expanded on the original, including new poems that have since been recognized as Baudelaire's masterpieces, producing a body of work that stands as the most consequential, controversial, and influential book of poetry from the nineteenth century.

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