Product Description

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".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1008124 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-31
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

From Library Journal
This collection of 50 prose poems, first published in 1862 as Le Spleen de Paris , is Baudelaire's attempt to describe the contradictions, fables, and fictions of city life in an innovative poetic prose. Kaplan's choice of title is indeed a good one, for though it was not the title of the original edition it is an expression often used by Baudelaire. Rendered in present-day English, the poems are restored to their original "modernity," allowing the reader to appreciate Baudelaire's subtle moods and ambiguities. This annotated edition, illustrated with the works of Baudelaire's contemporaries (Daumier, Manet, and Whistler, to name just a few) succeeds in shaking the dust from two earlier translations (Arthur Symons's in 1905 and Louise Varese's in 1947) and brings to light Baudelaire's precocious contributions to modern thought.
- Danielle Mihram, Univ. of Southern California Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
Already!
The Artist's Confiteor
At One O'clock In The Morning
The Bad Glazier
Beautiful Dorothy
The Cake
The Clock
The Counterfeit Coin
Crowds
The Desire To Paint
The Dog And The Scent-bottle
The Double Room
The Eyes Of The Poor
The Fairies' Gift
The Fool And The Venus
The Gallant Marksman
The Generous Gambler
Get High
The Good Dogs
The Harbor
A Hemisphere In Tresses
A Heroic Death
Invitation To The Voyage
A Joker
Let's Beat Up The Poor!
Loss Of Halo
The Mirror
Miss Scalpel
The Moon's Benefits
N'importe Ou Hors Du Monde Any Where Out Of The World
The Old Acrobat
The Old Woman's Despair
The Pauper's Toy
Plans
Portraits Of Mistresses
The Rope
The Shooting Range And The Cemetery
Solitude
The Soup And The Clouds
The Stranger
The Temptations, Or Eros, Plutus, And Fame
A Thoroughbred
The Thyrus
To Each His Chimera
Twilight
Vocations
Which Is The True One?
Widows
The Wild Woman And The Affected Coquette
Windows
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Customer Reviews

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i have several translations of le spleen de paris( in turkish) and want to say that these i have is not good in print, not well organized.but this book, with lots of painting of which painters baudelaire himself mentioned in his essays concerning modern painting and two are painted by baudelaire. a masterpiece is born from a masterpiece.