Paris Spleen Dual-Language Edition

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.

Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry - a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age - and one of the founding texts of literary Modernism.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781847499035
Published: August 2023

Number of pages: 224
Width: 128 mm
Height: 200 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd