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Figaro Hors-Série "Baudelaire, le spleen de la modernité"
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Figaro Hors-Série “Baudelaire, the spleen of modernity”.
Le Figaro.
“
Poet of modernity”,
we often hear. Baudelaire himself claims this need for modernity, which he defines as
"the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent".
The
“Parisian paintings”,
the scenes of urban life, this deafening street in which he meets the dazzling gaze of a passer-by, illustrate this taste for the most fleeting realities. But, he specifies then, this topicality is in fact only
"half of art, of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable".
Eternity is the lifeline so that the brief exchange of glances with the
"passer-by"
does not get engulfed in nothingness:
"Fleeting beauty / Whose gaze suddenly made me reborn, / Will I only see you in eternity?"
"
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