Paris Spleen: 1869

Paris Spleen: 1869

<p>One of the founding texts of literary modernism.</p><br />Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, <em>The Flowers of Evil</em>: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, <em>Paris Spleen</em> was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry€"a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age€"and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.