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Genre/Form: | prose poems poetry Poetry Prose poems Translations Poèmes en prose Poésie |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Baudelaire; Edward K Kaplan |
ISBN: | 0820318795 9780820318790 0820319023 9780820319025 |
OCLC Number: | 35209392 |
Description: | xxii, 138 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Baudelaire's neglected masterpiece -- The stranger -- The old woman's despair -- The artist's confiteor -- A joker -- The double room -- To each his chimera -- The fool and the Venus -- The dog and the scent-bottle -- The bad glazier -- At one o'clock in the morning -- The wild woman and the affected coquette -- Crowds -- Widows -- The old acrobat -- The cake -- The clock -- A hemisphere in tresses -- Invitation to the voyage -- The pauper's toy -- The fairies' gifts -- The temptations, or, Eros, Plutus, and fame -- Twilight -- Solitude -- Plans -- Beautiful Dorothy -- The eyes of the poor -- A heroic death -- The counterfeit coin -- The generous gambler -- The rope -- Vocations -- The thyrsus -- Get high -- Already! -- Windows -- The desire to paint -- The moon's benefits. |
Other Titles: | Spleen de Paris. Spleen de Paris |
Responsibility: | by Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Edward K. Kaplan. |
Abstract:
From Edouard Manet to T.S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this translation, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a melange of reactions this is a collection of 50 ""fables of modern life"".
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