Charles Baudelaire

Det ondas blommor, också översatt som Ondskans blommor, är en diktsamling av poeten Charles Baudelaire med den franska originaltiteln Les fleurs du mal. Boken har kallats för 1800-talets mest epokgörande diktsamling. Den utkom år 1857 och innehöll en stor del av de dikter Baudelaire då hade skrivit. Den senaste …

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words “dangerous”—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a …

Les Paradis Artificiels is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish. Baudelaire describes the effects of the drugs and discusses the way in which they could theoretically aid mankind in reaching an "ideal" world. The text was …