The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poemes en Prose

Baudelaire, Charles

ISBN 10: 0820318795 / ISBN 13: 9780820318790

Edité par University of Georgia Press (edition 2), 1997

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Synopsis :

From Edouard Manet to T. S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this prize-winning translation of his no-longer-neglected masterpiece, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a mélange of reactions, these fifty "fables of modern life" take us on various tours led by a flâneur, an incognito stroller.

Through day and night, in gleaming cafés and filthy side streets, this alienated yet compassionate esthete muses on the bizarre in the commonplace, the sublime in the mundane. As the work reveals a teeming metropolis on the eve of great change, we see a Paris as contradictory, surprising, and ultimately unknowable as our guide himself. Superbly complemented by twenty-one period illustrations by Delacroix, Callot, Manet, Whistler, Baudelaire himself, and others, The Parisian Prowler is an essential companion to Les Fleurs du Mal and other works by the father of modern poetry. In the preface to this edition, translator Edward K. Kaplan explains how the volume's illustrations act as a graphic subtext to the narrator's observations.

À propos des auteurs: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867) was a French poet, essayist, critic, and translator.

EDWARD K. KAPLAN (1942-2024) was the Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University and taught French, comparative literature, and religious studies. His translation of Baudelaire's Parisian Prowler (Georgia) is a winner the Lewis Galantiere Prize of the American Translators Association and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, ...
Éditeur : University of Georgia Press (edition 2)
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Fair
Edition : 2.