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Title

The Parisian prowler = Le spleen de Paris : petits poèmes en prose / by Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Edward K. Kaplan.

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867

Publication

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors

Kaplan, Edward K., 1942-

Description

xxii, 138 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

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. Complemented by period illustrations, The Parisian Prowler is an essential companion to Les Fleurs du Mal and other works by the father of modern poetry.--From publisher description.

Uniform Title

Spleen de Paris. English

Alternative Title

• Spleen de Paris.
• Spleen de Paris

Subjects

• Translations
• Poetry
• Paris (France) > Poetry
• Prose poems, French > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Translations
• Poetry.
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Baudelaire's neglected masterpiece -- The stranger -- The old woman's despair -- The artist's confiteor -- A joker -- The double room -- To each his chimera -- The fool and the Venus -- The dog and the scent-bottle -- The bad glazier -- At one o'clock in the morning -- The wild woman and the affected coquette -- Crowds -- Widows -- The old acrobat -- The cake -- The clock -- A hemisphere in tresses -- Invitation to the voyage -- The pauper's toy -- The fairies' gifts -- The temptations, or, Eros, Plutus, and fame -- Twilight -- Solitude -- Plans -- Beautiful Dorothy -- The eyes of the poor -- A heroic death -- The counterfeit coin -- The generous gambler -- The rope -- Vocations -- The thyrsus -- Get high -- Already! -- Windows -- The desire to paint -- The moon's benefits.

ISBN

0820318795 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96032135^

OCLC

35209392

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library