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La Folie Baudelaire (Hardcover)
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La Folie Baudelaire (Hardcover)
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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."
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