Charles Baudelaire

Brand-new translation by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer here presented in a dual language edition. Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal...

Dernier recueil de Baudelaire, publié à titre posthume, « Le Spleen de Paris » est l'œuvre monumentale d'un géant de la poésie française. Pareil à bien des égards aux célèbres « Fleurs du Mal », ces cinquante poèmes en prose sont pourtant un regard nouveau sur son auteur, par lequel se dévoile une philosophie et sensibilité jusqu'alors gardée enfouie en lui. Baudelaire capte ainsi pour la première fois l'étrangeté du quotidien...

First published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's "Gaspard de la Nuit - Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot" or "Gaspard of the Night - Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot", Baudelaire remarked that he had read Bertrand's work at least twenty times for starting "Paris Spleen". A commentary on Parisian contemporary life, Baudelaire...

Für den Leser Dummheit, Irrtum, Sünde, Sparsamkeit, Beschäftige unseren Geist und arbeite unseren Körper, Und wir nähren unsere freundliche Reue, Als Bettler füttern sie ihr Ungeziefer. Unsere Sünden sind hartnäckig, unsere Reue ist feige; Wir werden für unsere Geständnisse gut bezahlt, Und wir betreten fröhlich den schlammigen Weg, Der Glaube an Basentränen wäscht alle unsere Flecken weg. Auf dem Kissen des Bösen liegt Satan Trismegistus...

Including all poems published in the previous three editions, this comprehensive new translation of  Baudelaire's poetry is both vivid and authoritative. This dual-language volume presents both the original French poems as well as their translations.

Religioso a seu modo, pagão, satanista e provocador, Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) é considerado o pai do simbolismo francês, movimento cuja origem os críticos localizam exatamente no livro As Flores do Mal, de 1857.. Seus poemas, que foram em grande parte inspirados em sua paixão pela mulata Jeanne Duval, valeram-lhe um processo por atentado aos bons costumes e condenação ao pagamento de uma multa de alto valor para sua época. Da...

Paraísos artificiais reúne dois ensaios realizados pelo poeta seguindo o seu interesse pelos chamados estados de exaltação atingidos pelo uso de drogas, especialmente as da época: ópio e o haxixe. Em "Um comedor de ópio", Baudelaire comenta e analisa o livro de Thomas de Quincey, Confissões de um comedor de ópio, de quem foi tradutor e grande admirador. No "Poema do haxixe", o poeta fala sobre os efeitos da droga baseado em suas experiências...

Reunimos en este volumen los textos en los que Charles Baudelaire se ocupa de la esencia de la risa y la caricatura junto con "El pintor de la vida moderna". Diferentes y publicados en fechas distintas —en los años cincuenta del siglo XIX los primeros, en 1863 "El pintor de la vida moderna"—, guardan una estrecha relación en la caracterización del mundo moderno que realiza el poeta. Daumier, Grandville, Gavarni son "pintores" de la vida moderna...

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born on April 9 1821 in Paris to an amateur artist mother and professional father. His father died when Charles was 6 but his mother remarried shortly after to Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick who later became a prominent ambassador. Consequently Charles received a good education and was encouraged to enter the legal profession by both parents but instead wanted to pursue the life of the writer and had already developed...

The celebrated, National Book Award winning, translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece. "It is the English edition to acquire."-Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, Richard Howard, gives readers the true voice of Baudelaire in this masterful translation. 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...