Belgium Stripped Bare - Baudelaire, Charles
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In April of 1864, Baudelaire departed Paris for Brussels with something of a massive shipwreck in his wake: his major work, Les fleurs du Mal, had been condemned and censored a decade earlier, many of his other works were out of print, and he pawned his prized Poe translations to gain much needed survival money. Fearful of being imprisoned for debt, the poet who was an outcast in Paris would soon become a pariah in Brussels. Not long after his arrival, rumors spread that he was a spy reporting on Republican exiles on behalf of the French police. While encountering a pestiferous city in the…mehr

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In April of 1864, Baudelaire departed Paris for Brussels with something of a massive shipwreck in his wake: his major work, Les fleurs du Mal, had been condemned and censored a decade earlier, many of his other works were out of print, and he pawned his prized Poe translations to gain much needed survival money. Fearful of being imprisoned for debt, the poet who was an outcast in Paris would soon become a pariah in Brussels. Not long after his arrival, rumors spread that he was a spy reporting on Republican exiles on behalf of the French police. While encountering a pestiferous city in the midst of redevelopment, and after failing to secure a publisher for his work, Baudelaire would begin writing notes for his projected book on Belgium. In his catalogus rerum of Brussels and the Belgians, the general overruling condition is one of blandness and dissolution: with observations ranging from those of a sociologist to an anthropologist, city planner, and aesthete, through Baudelaire's fleeting eye, we witness his examination of physiognomy, cultural and political customs, Belgium's fear of annexation by France, & more. Deemed a mean-spirited and even xenophobic book by figures such as Derrida, Baudelaire himself spoke of it as a sketch and satire that had the double advantage of being a caricature of the follies of France and a simulacrum of a Democratic state. As he attempted to complete his project on Belgium as well as other works, Baudelaire suffered violent attacks of neuralgia, then, in early 1866, he was plagued with more attacks, dizzy spells, and nausea. After a cerebral stroke, he was left hemiplegic and mute. In this veritable full-scale examination of every aspect of life in Belgium, Baudelaire's perspectival eye catches a world in a glance. The poet's plethora of notes and vast collection of related newspaper clippings (summarized within) reveal to us the inner workings of his mind, what Blake called the artist's Infernal workshop. Belgium Stripped Bare is an aesthetico-diagnostic litany of often vitriolic observations whose victory is found in the act of analysis itself, in the intoxication of diagnosis, just as great comedians exult in caustic and biting observations of society, a slap in the face of the status quo.
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Las flores del mal (título original en francés: Les Fleurs du mal) es una colección de poemas de Charles Baudelaire. Considerada la obra máxima de su autor, abarca casi la totalidad de su producción poética desde 1840 hasta la fecha de su primera publicación.La primera edición constó de 1.300 ejemplares y se llevó a cabo el 25 de junio de 1857. La segunda edición de 1861 elimina los poemas censurados, pero añade 30 nuevos. La edición definitiva será póstuma, en 1868 y, si bien no incluye los poemas prohibidos, añade algunos más. Esta versión consta de 151 poemas. La censura que recayó sobre algunos de sus poemas no sería levantada en Francia hasta 1949.Las Flores del mal es considerada una de las obras más importantes de la poesía moderna, que imprime una estética nueva, donde la belleza y lo sublime surgen, a través del lenguaje poético, de la realidad más trivial, aspecto que ejerció una influencia considerable en poetas como Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé o Arthur Rimbaud.EstructuraA mi queridísimo y veneradísmo maestro y amigo Théophile Gautier. Aunque te ruego que apadrines Las flores del mal, no creas que ande tan descarriado ni que sea tan indigno del título de poeta como para creer que estas flores enfermizas merecen tu noble patrocinio. Ya sé que en las etéreas regiones de la verdadera poesía no existe el mal y tampoco el bien, como sé que no es imposible que este mísero diccionario de la melancolía y del crimen justifique las reacciones de la moral, del mismo modo que el blasfemo viene a reafirmar la religión. Pero en la medida de mis posibilidades, y a falta de algo mejor, he querido rendir un profundo homenaje al autor de Albertus, La comedia de la muerte y Viaje a España, al poeta impecable, al mago de la lengua francesa, de quien me declaro con tanto orgullo como humildad, el más devoto, el más respetuoso y el más envidiado de los discípulos.Charles Baudelaire: Las flores del malA lo largo de toda la obra, Baudelaire juega sobre las correspondencias verticales y horizontales que más adelante inspirarán a otros muchos poetas toda su obra se construye como un itinerario moral, espiritual y físico. Baudelaire divide el libro en siete partes, introducidas por el famoso poema Al lector: Esplín e ideal, Cuadros parisinos, El vino, Flores del mal y Rebelión, con una conclusión final: La muerte.