false 6878425 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 203220 182 2089235 book 1857 Les Fleurs Du Mal total:2446|5:1252|4:776|3:345|2:57|1:16| 2446 10529 3393 170 13847 4.29 4117 279 1254707 4.50 2 0 12691338 775461 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 1444 1857 4 3 false Wed Jan 16 14:15:43 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 08:42:24 -0800 2008
In all seriousness, though, I wish my Fr...more...]]> 28705430 761100 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 5 2 false Tue Jul 29 21:49:39 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 21:49:39 -0700 2008
Baudelaire emphasized above all the disassociated character of modern experience: the sense that alienation is an inevitable part of our modern world. In his prose, this complexity is expressed via harshness and shifts of mood.

The constant...more...]]> 80970833 3034622 6990114 1435107500 9781435107502 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255662100m/6990114.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255662100s/6990114.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6990114-flowers-of-evil 4.33 3 1857 0 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 09:49:08 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 17:21:20 -0800 2009 3
He had a tortured soul and you can feel his pain in his work. His poem are so beau...more...]]> 67592413 1758594 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 4 0 false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 07:08:41 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 07:11:27 -0700 2009 ongoing more...]]> 57461717 2353926 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 5 2 false Tue Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Tue May 26 22:25:14 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 04:47:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4298231 190361 128480 081120006X 9780811200066 10 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128480.Flowers_of_Evil_A_Selection 4.24 78 1857 3 1 false Thu Aug 09 00:26:09 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 04:25:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46385007 1792361 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 4 0 false Sat Feb 14 21:46:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 21:57:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 42013862 1711213 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 3 0 false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 15:38:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 20:22:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 67520884 1019174 3213640 0199535582 9780199535583 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256035559m/3213640.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256035559s/3213640.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3213640.The_Flowers_of_Evil 4.37 52 celebration of the seamy side of urban life. Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection.]]> 1857 5 1 false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 13:37:53 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 15:15:36 -0700 2009 1 Flowers of Evil was an entirely serendipitous impulse check-out from my local library. I can only imagine that what caught my eye was the title - Flowers of Evil - who could resist? So I pulled it from the shelf, opened it up at random, read a few verses, and said to myself "This isn't bad."...more...]]> 45028388 126266 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 5 0 false Sun Feb 01 05:59:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 04:16:59 -0800 2009
I will add a caveat to this review. Wh...more...]]> 29246143 282295 128480 081120006X 9780811200066 10 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128480.Flowers_of_Evil_A_Selection 4.30 2446 1857 4 1 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 15:17:32 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 15:18:48 -0700 2008 6710845 143148 24600 081956799X 9780819567994 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167540848m/24600.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167540848s/24600.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24600.The_Flowers_of_Evil 4.27 88 1857 5 1 false Mon Sep 24 11:42:41 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 11:43:48 -0700 2007 57163361 655723 3213640 0199535582 9780199535583 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256035559m/3213640.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256035559s/3213640.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3213640.The_Flowers_of_Evil 4.30 2446 celebration of the seamy side of urban life. Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection.]]> 1857 5 1 false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 11:58:38 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 12:28:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 20706809 1093686 3213640 0199535582 9780199535583 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256035559m/3213640.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256035559s/3213640.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3213640.The_Flowers_of_Evil 4.30 2446 celebration of the seamy side of urban life. Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection.]]> 1857 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Tue Apr 22 04:39:52 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 04:50:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 15961439 720596 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 5 0 false Wed Feb 20 21:23:34 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 21:25:46 -0800 2008
Spleen
by Charles Baudelaire
Translated by Richard Howard


...more...]]> 12778541 778548 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 3 0 false Wed Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jan 17 13:58:22 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 14:58:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 111328 13191 50482 0811211177 9780811211178 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170369425m/50482.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170369425s/50482.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50482.Flowers_of_Evil 4.29 107 1857 5 0 false Tue Feb 27 07:20:27 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 27 07:42:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> 55626173 2228413 203220 0879234628 9780879234621 85 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.30 2446 1857 5 0 false Sun May 17 13:55:30 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 19:30:19 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 13:55:30 -0700 2009 Have to disagree with people who say hes too dark. I feel that hes just not afraid to addres any...more...]]> 20873406 1110931 1060828 207040904X 9782070409044 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180643804m/1060828.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180643804s/1060828.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1060828.Les_Fleurs_Du_Mal 4.05 20 Fleurs du mal, privée des six "pièces condamnées" en correctionnelle pour immoralité, paraît en 1861. Romantiques par la mélancolie à l'ombre de laquelle ils s'épanouissent, parnassiens par leur culte du Beau et la rigueur de leur composition (ils sont dédiés à Théophile Gautier), ces poèmes illustrent la théorie des correspondances horizontales entre les éléments visibles et invisibles, qui sont comme de "longs échos qui de loin en loin se confondent" pour s'élever en correspondances verticales "ayant l'expansion des choses infinies". Exploration du matériau grouillant qu'est la vie, cette quête spirituelle conduit le poète, tiraillé entre Spleen et Idéal, à travers diverses expériences pour échapper à la dualité déchirante. L'amour, un temps envisagé, est bien vite écarté au profit de l'activité qui caractérise les Tableaux parisiens. Mais la contemplation urbaine s'achève sur la vision presque hallucinatoire des brouillards matinaux. Viennent alors Le Vin et autres plaisirs artificiels, puis le vice, fleurs du mal qui n'offrent que mirage et dégoût. Dans une ultime tentative pour échapper au spleen, le poète pousse un cri de Révolte blasphématoire dont les répétitions ne sont plus des échos incantatoires, mais des piétinements stériles. Reste La Mort. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters ]]> 1857 5 0 false Thu Apr 24 07:28:32 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 04 22:59:20 -0700 2009 Les Fleurs Du Mal, but only after having read them all in French, first. My love affair with Baudelaire began when I was in high school, and it was during a visit to Provence during that time that I was given a copy of this book.

This is one of my...more...]]> 71483911 2465788 24604 0486270920 9780486270920 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167540850m/24604.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167540850s/24604.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24604.Flowers_of_Evil_and_Other_Works_Les_Fleurs_du_Mal_et_Oeuvres_Choisies_A_Dual_Language_Book 4.31 134 </div>]]> 1857 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987 Wed Sep 16 18:25:02 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 22:15:24 -0700 2009 2
What can you say about a person whose very surname has become a synonym for debauchery, for louche and antisocial behavior?

Many people try to live their lives to schock others, at one phase or another of their youth, especially. But for Baudelaire, ...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6878425