Summary
Charles Baudelaire: The Spleen of Paris
"Actually, it is again The Flowers of Evil, but with much more freedom...", Baudelaire wrote to a friend about his Little Poems in Prose. Carried away by poetic imagination, he indulges in his unbridled inspiration in The Flowers of Evil, while The Spleen of Paris (as the book was later renamed, according to the author's records found) is much calmer, it contains more subtle observations and dreamy contemplation. Splin is a delicately executed lyrical theme in prose, in fact a series of themes that, like the musical movements of the original suite, connect into a captivating whole. This marvelous work was created from prose and pure poetry, from flashes of analytical spirit and subtle immersion into the human soul, from reality and dreams, from lucid reasoning and suggestive sensitivity. Here the boundaries between poetry and prose are discarded, but their essence is not sacrificed - both live their full lives, intertwine and intensify each other. And it is precisely in this masterful merging or overflowing of conflicting elements that the secret of the impressive impression and reputation of Baudelaire's prose poems lies. Creating this new literary genre, he superbly expressed what until then was not even known to be able to be expressed!
For illustration, we draw attention to the wonderful poem Stranac (p. 7), which was decisive for the publication of this book in Šareno.
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