Les Fleurs du Mal - Baudelaire

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[Ebook reader of Les Fleurs du mal]Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, covering almost all of his production in verse from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867.Published on June 21, 1857, the collection immediately scandalized French society.
Its author underwent a resounding trial.
The judgment condemned him to a heavy fine, reduced upon the intervention of the Empress; it led to the censorship of six plays deemed immoral.The collection is considered a major work of modern poetry.
It differs from a classic collection where often, mere chance brings together generally disparate poems.
Here, the poems are structured methodically and according to a precise design.
The main themes are:suffering here below considered according to the Christian dogma of original sin, which implies atonement;disgust for evil – and often for oneself;the obsession with death;the aspiration for an ideal world, accessible through mysterious correspondences.Nourished by physical sensations that memory acutely restores, the work expresses a new aesthetic where poetic art juxtaposes the moving palette of human feelings and the vision of a sometimes trivial reality with the most ineffable beauty.(Audio book)