Les paradis artificiels

Charles Baudelaire

Publié par Poulet-Malassis et de Broise

Résumé

At the time of its release in 1860, Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises (Les Paradis Artificiels) met with immediate praise. One of the most important French symbolists, Baudelaire led a debauched, violent, and ultimately tragic life, dying an opium addict in 1867. This book, a response to Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, serves as a memoir of Baudelaire's last years. In this beautifully wrought portrait of the effects of wine, opium, and hashish on the mind, Baudelaire captures the dreamlike visions he experienced during his narcotic trances. These hallucinations, sometimes exquisite, sometimes disturbing, and the delusions of grandeur that often accompanied them, constitute the Paradis Artificiels, the gorgeous yet false worlds of ecstasy that eventually led to his ruin. Contrasting the effects of hashish and opium with those of wine, Baudelaire concludes that "wine exalts the will, hashish destroys it" and makes idlers of all those who use it.

Petits poèmes en prose

Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire illustrées par la peinture symboliste et décadente

Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris

Les fleurs du mal

Concordance to Baudelaire's "Petits Poems En Prose"

Les Fleurs du Mal

Les fleurs du mal illustrées par Henri Matisse

Voyages en bohème - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine

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