Paris Spleen
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Paris Spleen

little poems in prose

  1. 124 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Paris Spleen

little poems in prose

About this book

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words "dangerous"—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of the lyrical with the sardonic, Le Spleen de Paris may be regarded as one of the earliest and most successful examples of a specifically urban writing, the textual equivalent of the city scenes of the Impressionists. In this compelling new translation, Keith Waldrop delivers the companion to his innovative translation of The Flowers of Evil. Here, Waldrop's perfectly modulated mix releases the music, intensity, and dissonance in Baudelaire's prose. The result is a powerful new re-imagining that is closer to Baudelaire's own poetry than any previous English translation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Translator’s Introduction
  7. For Arsène Houssaye
  8. I The Stranger
  9. II An Old Woman’s Despair
  10. III The Artist’s Confiteor
  11. IV A Joker
  12. V Double Bedroom
  13. VI To Each His ChimĂŚra
  14. VII The Fool and Venus
  15. VIII Dog and Flask
  16. IX The Bad Glazier
  17. X One A.M.
  18. XI Wild Woman and Little Darling
  19. XII The Crowd
  20. XIII Widows
  21. XIV The Old Showman
  22. XV Cake
  23. XVI The Clock
  24. XVII A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair
  25. XVIII Invitation to the Voyage
  26. XIX A Toy for the Poor
  27. XX Fairy Gifts
  28. XXI Temptations
  29. XXII Evening Twilight
  30. XXIII Solitude
  31. XXIV Planning
  32. XXV Dorothea the Beautiful
  33. XXVI The Eyes of the Poor
  34. XXVII An Heroic Death
  35. XXVIII The False Coin
  36. XXIX Generous Gambler
  37. XXX The Rope
  38. XXXI Callings
  39. XXXII The Thyrsus
  40. XXXIII Be Drunk
  41. XXXIV Already!
  42. XXXV Windows
  43. XXXVI The Urge to Paint
  44. XXXVII Moon Favors
  45. XXXVIII Which Is the True?
  46. XXXIX A Thoroughbred
  47. XL The Mirror
  48. XLI The Port
  49. XLII Mistresses Portrayed
  50. XLIII The Gallant Marksman
  51. XLIV Soup and Clouds
  52. XLV Shooting-Gallery and Cemetery
  53. XLVI Lost Halo
  54. XLVII Mademoiselle Bistoury
  55. XLVIII Anywhere Out of the World
  56. XLIX Knock Down the Poor!
  57. L Good Dogs
  58. About the Author