Bücher von Charles Baudelaire

In seinem Essay "Die künstlichen Paradiese" (1860) setzt Baudelaire sich mit der Wirkung bewusstseinserweiternder Drogen und ihrer Bedeutung für die Dichteridentität und das künstlerische Schaffen auseinander. Der französische Autor hatte selber mit Alkohol, Haschisch und Opium experimentiert, um seinem Geist und seinen Sinnen neue Erfahrungswelten zu eröffnen. Er musste jedoch erkennen, dass der Drogenkonsum seine künstlerische Produktivität nur bedingt zu steigern vermochte, und eine dauerhafte Flucht aus dem Alltag nicht möglich war. Wie auch andere große Schriftsteller mit Drogenerfahrungen, z. B. Edgar Allan Poe und Ernst Jünger, beschreibt Baudelaire das ambivalente Verhältnis zu seinen Rauscherfahrungen und die Enttäuschung angesichts ihres begrenzten Stimulus.

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Jan Owen's masterly translation captures all of Baudelaire's passion and anguish in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire's best known poems - including those banned from 1857 edition - as well as some less familiar ones, with the volume leading up to his great long poem, 'The Voyage', and finishing with the much-loved sonnet 'Meditation'.

Originally published in 1949, this book contains the French text of various essays by Charles Baudelaire. The essays cover a range of topics, from Edgar Allen Poe to Delacroix and Madame Bovary, and the majority are taken from Baudelaire's 1868 publication L'art romantique.

Before publishing Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, Baudelaire was probably better known to his contemporaries as a critic than as a poet, and the articles translated here by P. E. Charvet illustrate the development of Baudelaire's critical ideas. These essays cover the visual, literary, and musical arts.

The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were put on trial for offence to public decency. Six offending poemswere banned, in a conviction that was not overturned until 1949.This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection, makes available to English speakers a powerful and original version of the world. Jonathan Culler's Introduction outlines this vision, stressing that Baudelaire is more than just the poet of the modern city. Originally to be called `The Lesbians', The Flowers of Evil contains the most extraordinary body of love poetry. The poems also pose thequestion of the role of evil in our lives, of whether there are not external forces working to frustrate human plans and to enlist men and women on appalling or stultifying scenarios not of their own making.