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The Epic of the Flowers of Evil: Charles Baudelaire

Name: The Epic of the Flowers of Evil: Charles Baudelaire
Author: Imad Darouich

ملحمة أزهار الشر: شارل بودلير

A rereading of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal in an Arab voice, chapter by chapter: beauty between angel and demon, the intoxications of wine and absence, the crowd of the modern city, woman as a modern Ishtar, death as the other face of beauty, and music and symbolism.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Literature & Art

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Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is reread here in an Arab voice, as an entire poetic city where churches stand beside taverns and the prayers of saints mingle with laughter. Chapters move from beauty and evil, caught between angel and demon, to the intoxications of wine and absence, Paris as a labyrinth of crowds, woman as body, myth and sanctuary, and death as the other face of beauty. Music carries the soul like the sea, dream and hallucination open another world, and the devil and the saint share the same heart. The book ends with poetry as a bridge between ruin and eternity, with sayings of Baudelaire opening its parts.

Modern poetry was born from the womb of shock,

Baudelaire said: “You must always be drunk: with wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you wish—but be drunk.”

For him, eternity is not endless time,

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