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Figaro Hors-Série "Baudelaire, le spleen de la modernité"
, find all the articles on the most classic of modern poets, his life as a tormented dandy, his aesthetics, his work, from
Fleurs du Mal
to
Artificial paradises
.
Étienne Carjat, 1861 Le Figaro
“It seems to me that I could begin, form by form, to remind you of this world of Baudelaire's thought, this country of his genius, of which each poem is only a fragment, and which as soon as you read it is joined to the other fragments that we know of it… ”
Proust's admiration for the author of
Fleurs du mal
permeates all his work, from the questionnaire of 1890, in which Baudelaire replaces Musset at the rank of favorite poet, to the reminiscences of
Time regained.
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Baudelaire, the spleen of modernity: the unlimited spending madness of the poet
Both “irreducible” in their time which they dominated with their genius, Baudelaire and Proust knew how to renew poetry and the novel by works which owe everything to the classics but open to modernity.
Fully aware of their value despite a difficult start, they
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