by Charles Baudelaire (Author), Nathan Brown (Translator)
A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTY
Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire's infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes an introduction from the translator, acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown.
Author Biography
Charles Baudelaire was the foremost poet of modern French Literature. Known for revolutionizing the tone and content of modern lyric poetry, he was the author of The Flowers of Evil, Paris Spleen, and Artificial Paradises, as well as the epochal essay, "The Painter of Modern Life."
Nathan Brown is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, where he is founding director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the author of
Baudelaire's Shadow: An Essay on Poetic Determination (2021),
Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (2021), and
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (2017).
Number of Pages: 480
Dimensions: 1.16 x 7.89 x 5.19 IN
Publication Date: January 07, 2025
