The Flowers Of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal) Charles Baudelaire Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Travel Maps & Atlases

Known To His Contemporaries Primarily As An Art Critic But Ambitious Secure A More Lasting Literary Legacy Charles Baudelaire Parisian Bohemian Spent Much Of The 1840S Composing Gritty Often Perverse Poems That Expressed Disgust With Banality Modern City Life First Published In 1857 Book Collected These Together Les Fleurs Du Mal Was Instant Sensation—Earning Plaudits And Simultaneously Disrepute Only Year After Gustave Flaubert Had Endured Own Public Trial For Indecency (For Madame Bovary) French Court Declared Offense Against Morals Six Within It Were Immediately Suppressed (A Ruling Would Not Be Reversed Until 1949 Nearly Century Baudelaire’s Untimely Death) Subsequent Editions Expanded On Original Including New Have Since Been Recognized Masterpieces Producing Body Work Stands Most Consequential Controversial Influential Poetry From Nineteenth Acclaimed Translator Poet Aaron Poochigian Tackles This Revolutionary Text Ear Attuned Lyrical Innovations—Rendering Them “An Assertive Blend Full Slant Rhymes Fluent Iambs” E Stallings)—And Intuitive Feel Work’s Dark Brooding Mood Poochigian’s Version Captures Incantatory Almost Magical Effect Original—Reanimating Today’s Reader “Unfailing Vision” “Trumpeted Space Light Future” (Patti Smith) Introduction By Dana Gioia Offers Probing Reassessment Supreme Artistry Masterpiece Afterword Daniel Handler Explores Its Continued Relevance Appeal Featuring English Deluxe Dual-Language Edition Allows Readers Commune Both Electric Revelatory Translations Σελίδες: 400 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0518 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm