num_pages: 256
description: Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal marks the intrusion of modernity into the French poetic tradition. The carefully ordered collection (here presented in its 1861 edition) betrays a frighteningly honest poet grappling with a sense of his own deep spiritual imperfection, a recognition too of his creative difficulty and an ambivalent teetering on the boundary between the radical and the conservative. Baudelaire sustains in a single collection an exploration of sin, suffering, love, sexual desire, memory, beauty, the city, and the fundamental human impulse towards the new and the unknown - and all this in verse that resonates with a fresh timbre and persuades through its mysterious 'rhetorique profonde'.
language: French
title: Les Fleurs Du Mal
titlecomplete: Les Fleurs Du Mal
genres: French Literature, School, Poetry, Literature, Gothic, Classic Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 68601
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Bristol Classical Press