| Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose Trans. from the Edition Contributor(s): Baudelaire, Charles (Author), Waldrop, Keith (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0819569097 ISBN-13: 9780819569097 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.8 |
| LCCN: 2008054948 |
| Series: Wesleyan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.55 lbs) 116 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century 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. |