Professor emeritus at Paris-Sorbonne University, specialist in comparative literature, Pierre Brunel is the author of
Les Fleurs du mal.
Between "flower" and "deflower"
(Editions du Temps, 1998),
Baudelaire and the "well of magic".
Six essays on Baudelaire and modern poetry
(José Corti, 2002) and
ancient and modern Baudelaire
(Presses universitaire Paris-Sorbonne, 2007).
This article is taken from the
Figaro Hors-Série "Baudelaire, the spleen of modernity"
, find there all the articles on the most classic of modern poets, his life as a tormented dandy, his aesthetics, his work,
Fleurs du mal
to
artificial paradises.
Figaro Hors-Série “Baudelaire, the spleen of modernity”.
Le Figaro
In the volume bringing together the
Judicial Works
of Ernest Pinard, published in 1885, appears his indictment against Flaubert, but not the one he pronounced against Baudelaire.
In his
Journal,
we find only a very brief mention of the
Flowers of Evil
trial
.
This prosecutor, who made the literary world tremble under the Second Empire, is content to say that
This article is for subscribers only.
You have 97% left to discover.
To cultivate your freedom is to cultivate your curiosity.
Continue reading your article for € 1 the first month
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed?
Log in
