{"product_id":"baudelaire-9","title":"Baudelaire: Les Fleurs Du Mal","description":"Baudelaire's \"Les Fleurs du Mal\" marks the intrusion of modernity into the French poetic tradition. The carefully ordered collection (here presented in its 1861 edition) betrays a frighteningly honest poet grappling witha sense of his own deep spiritual imperfection, a recognition too of his creative difficulty and an ambivalent teetering on the boundary between the radical and the conservative. As no other poet had done before (and only a few have managed since), Baudelaire sustains in a single collection an exploration of sin, suffering, love, sexual desire, memory, beauty, the city, and the fundamental human impulse towards the new and the unknown - and all this in verse that resonates with a fresh timbre and persuades through its mysterious 'rhetorique profonde'. This critical edition urges the reader to join the poet in his journey from benediction to death, to become a fellow traveller along the route towards 'le nouveau'.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46535879491794,"sku":"9781853993442","price":48.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5d5e7da2-cc91-4817-b90a-14002e8188e6.jpg?v=1762900729","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/baudelaire-9","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}