I fiori del male e tutte le poesie: Ediz. integrale con testo francese a fronte

Par Charles Baudelaire

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Edito nel 1857, il capolavoro poetico di Baudelaire venne immediatamente sequestrato dalla censura francese per oltraggio alla morale. Nei "fiori malaticci" del più grande simbolista dell'800 coesistono l'anelito verso la bellezza e la degradazione fisica e morale della vita metropolitana parigina, nel tentativo di superare attraverso l'arte il senso di solitudine e di spossatezza del poeta stesso. Lo spleen, il tedio esistenziale, viene esacerbato dal consumo di oppio e vino, ma permette al poeta di dipingere percorsi di suggestione sensoriale e visiva unici nel panorama letterario europeo. La ricerca dell'appagamento erotico sa farsi in Baudelaire anche slancio lirico verso l'infinito, in un'estasi antiretorica di corpi e anime. Allo stesso modo la ricerca del divino coesiste con l'accettazione e la fascinazione del diabolico. Opera ispiratrice per generazioni di bohémien e ribelli, "I fiori del male" è presentato qui nella sua versione integrale, corredata da un ricco apparato di note. Nella presente edizione è raccolta inoltre l'opera poetica completa di Baudelaire: "I fiori del male", "I relitti", "Poesie diverse", "Amenità belghe", "Frammenti".

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Crescere
• Date de sortie: 13 déc. 2019
• ISBN: 9788883378515

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet. Born in Paris, Baudelaire lost his father at a young age. Raised by his mother, he was sent to boarding school in Lyon and completed his education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he gained a reputation for frivolous spending and likely contracted several sexually transmitted diseases through his frequent contact with prostitutes. After journeying by sea to Calcutta, India at the behest of his stepfather, Baudelaire returned to Paris and began working on the lyric poems that would eventually become The Flowers of Evil (1857), his most famous work. Around this time, his family placed a hold on his inheritance, hoping to protect Baudelaire from his worst impulses. His mistress Jeanne Duval, a woman of mixed French and African ancestry, was rejected by the poet’s mother, likely leading to Baudelaire’s first known suicide attempt. During the Revolutions of 1848, Baudelaire worked as a journalist for a revolutionary newspaper, but soon abandoned his political interests to focus on his poetry and translations of the works of Thomas De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe. As an arts critic, he promoted the works of Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, composer Richard Wagner, poet Théophile Gautier, and painter Édouard Manet. Recognized for his pioneering philosophical and aesthetic views, Baudelaire has earned praise from such artists as Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and T. S. Eliot. An embittered recorder of modern decay, Baudelaire was an essential force in revolutionizing poetry, shaping the outlook that would drive the next generation of artists away from Romanticism towards Symbolism, and beyond. Paris Spleen (1869), a posthumous collection of prose poems, is considered one of the nineteenth century’s greatest works of literature.

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