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Paris Spleen

Charles Baudelaire

Paperback | Pages: 118 pages

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Original Title:	Le Spleen de Paris
ISBN:	0811200078 (ISBN13: 9780811200073)
Edition Language:	English

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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 and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry—a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age—and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

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Title	:	Paris Spleen
Author	:	Charles Baudelaire
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 118 pages
Published	:	January 17th 1970 by New Directions (first published 1869)
Categories	:	Poetry. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Fiction. Literature

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Ratings: 4.3 From 10226 Users | 350 Reviews

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I never really understood the appeal of Les Fleurs du Mal, but so many people love it that I started to feel bad. What was I missing? Along comes this book, Paris Spleen, which is full of prose poems made of equal parts humor, cynicism, and insight (and often all three within a paragraph). I like these poems because reading it, I feel like I have a sense of who Baudelaire might have been as a person... Plus, his humor is so odd:Soup and CloudsMy adorable little minx was serving me supper;

Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,your mother, your sister, or your brother?I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother.Your friends?Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known.Your country?I do not know in what latitude it lies.Beauty?I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal.Gold?I hate it as you hate God.Then what do you love, extraordinary stranger?I love the clouds...the clouds that pass...up there... up there...the wonderful clouds!

Short sketches, about loneliness and getting older. Sometimes strongly similar to Poe, with his masterful power of observation, a kind of precursor of de Maupassant. Sometimes very elegant, sometimes coarse. Technique of the unexpected turn that puts the prior story in a very different perspective.

I first became aware of this work about a year and a half ago, when reading something about that great punk poet, Patti Smith (as Baudelaire and Rimbaud were two of her biggest influences). But instead of picking up a copy of this work at that time, I first familiarized myself with Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, as that is his better known work. Time passed and I never got around to Le Spleen de Paris as I had intended. But this year, as I continue with my exploration of French writers, I

For a man to become a poet... he must be in love, or miserable.- Lord Byron, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron...the seconds are now strongly, solemnly accentuated, and each one, springing forth out of the clock, says: I am Life, intolerable, implacable Life! (45)This book includes two different works by Baudelaire: Paris Spleen and La Fanfarlo. The latter is the only novella he ever wrote, published before his celebrated Les Fleurs du Mal and it is, in fact, a good work. It tells the

A beautiful set of short prose poems, with rich vocabulary, elegant sentence structure, haunting morals, and often somewhat pessimistic outlooks.There is overlap between this and Twenty Prose Poems, but there are more stories here, and he has changed a few. I bet he and Edgar Allen Poe would get along, if only for their love of the grisly and grim. Beaudelaire's "prose" makes me fall in love with poetry all over again, and he has now earned a place as one of my favorite poets!

I have this book by my bed. Before I drop my eyes into deep sleep I like to read a page or two of this book. It gives me a certain sense ..... of dreams. Wonderful dreams.