num_pages: 208
description: One morning the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be it's no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she's taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the pote maudit she shuttles between London Vancouver Paris and the French countryside moving fluidly between the early 1980s and the present from rented room to rented room all the while considering such Baudelairian obsessions as modernity poverty and the perfect jacket...Part memoir part magical realism part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet's life The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the incomparable Lisa Robertson.
language: English
title: The Baudelaire Fractal
publisher: Coach House Books