Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521369374)

Les Fleurs du Mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, has in this century become the most famous and the most admired, owing its "landmark" status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses rather than to its judicial condemnation on its first publication in 1857. In this volume, Professor Leakey provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding and appreciation of Les Fleurs du Mal, offering new insights into its composition, themes and style, setting it in its historical context, and devoting a whole chapter to Baudelaire's crowning achievement, Le Cygne.

Author: F. W. Leakey
ISBN-10: 0521369371
ISBN-13: 9780521369374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/09/1992
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.01w x 0.41d