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La Folie Baudelaire (Hardcover) Loot Price: R679
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La Folie Baudelaire (Hardcover): Roberto Calasso

La Folie Baudelaire (Hardcover)

Roberto Calasso; Translated by Alastair McEwen

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Seen together, Roberto Calasso's books--beginning with "The Ruin of Kasch"--constitute an original and perceptive reconsideration of the great arc of literature, art, and mythology. In this lavishly illustrated book, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called "the Modern." His protagonist is Charles Baudelaire: poet of "nerves," art lover, pioneering critic, man about Paris. Calasso ranges through Baudelaire's life and work, focusing on two painters--Ingres and Delacroix--about whom Baudelaire wrote acutely, and then turning to Degas and Manet, who followed in the tracks Baudelaire laid down in his great essay "The Painter of Modern Life." In a mosaic of stories, insights, close readings of poems, and commentaries on paintings, Baudelaire's Paris comes to life.In the eighteenth century, a "folie "was a garden pavilion set aside for people of leisure, a place of delight and fantasy. Following Baudelaire, Calasso has created a brilliant and dramatic "Folie Baudelaire"--a place where the reader can encounter the poet himself, his peers, his city, and his extraordinary likes and dislikes, finally discovering that that place is situated in the middle of the land of "absolute literature."

General

Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2012
First published: October 2012
Authors: Roberto Calasso
Translators: Alastair McEwen
Dimensions: 235 x 163 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18334-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Biography > Literary
LSN: 0-374-18334-1
Barcode: 9780374183349

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