This is a modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century. 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 may be regar[...]

This translation of Baudelaire's magnum opus, perhaps the most powerful and influential book of verse from the 19th century, won the American Book Award for Translation. And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard's greatest efforts. It's all here: a timeless translation, the [...]

A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of history's most celebrated writers.
Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, "The Flowers of Evil," the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: "La Fanfarlo." The novella describes the torrid real-life [...]

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 and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensu[...]

Born in Paris, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a hugely influential poet, art critic and translator whose reputation has only increased in the twentieth century. Throughout his life Baudelaire was fascinated by both language, which he manipulated with consummate and innovative skill, and by the v[...]

Verdenslitteraturens mest berømte diktsamling Det ondes blomster (Les Fleurs du Mal) (1857; 1861; 1868) er den franske poeten Charles Baudelaires (1821-1867) hovedverk. Det er grensesprengende dikt som på samme tid utforsker den moderne virkelighet, ikke minst storbyens avgrunner, og metafysiske s[...]

Ny oversættelse af de klassiske digte, og for første gang med de seks ""Fordømte Stykker"", som blev bortcensureret som anstødelige ved førsteudgivelsen i 1857[...]

Från första början blev Charles Baudelaire närmast besatt av Edgar Allan Poes verk. Han läste ?Den svarta katten? i februari 1847, då Poe hade två år kvar att leva, och ägnade sedan en stor del av sin tid åt att översätta sin amerikanske kollega. Ambitionen var att föra över allt denne[...]