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Baudelaire
by Jean-Paul Sartre Martin TurnellThe abstractions like Existence and Being, Freedom and Nature are turned into a theory of psychoanalysis, stuck in man's creativity and opposed to Freudian determinism. This theory is put into practice in this book on Baudelaire.
Baudelaire
by Mario CampañaLa leyenda y el mito se han apoderado del autor de Las flores del mal . Convertido en uno de los iconos de la cultura moderna, en el poeta maldito por excelencia, la figura de Charles Baudelaire ha sufrido todo tipo de manipulaciones, que han pretendido convertirlo en dandy frívolo o en mártir y héroe inmaculado, en audaz parricida o en contumaz consumidor de drogas, simplificando así la verdadera magnitud de su figura, su vida y su trabajo. Ateniéndose a la ingente documentación existente y sorteando los peligros de la hagiografía y el anecdotario, esta biografía, escrita con rigor y fluidez, es la obra de un poeta que prefiere ceñirse a los hechos y a la complejidad de la vida del que fuera el fundador de la poesía contemporánea, reconociéndolo en sus grandezas y miserias, su arrojo, sus contradicciones y sus dobleces hasta llenar un inexplicable vacío en la bibliografía en lengua castellana. Con un profundo conocimiento de la sociedad francesa y los avances del mercantilismo en la época, Mario Campaña sitúa a Baudelaire en su contexto social y político, al tiempo que destaca cómo influyó esta convulsa situación en su vida y obra. Siendo revolucionario en 1848, el poeta terminó repudiando toda la civilización occidental y proponiendo fórmulas políticas que lo situaron en el espectro más conservador de su época. Santo al revés, con la santidad de la cólera y la destrucción, tuvo en su madurez una vida de marginalidad en que el dolor se abrazaba al gozo para acabar convertido, con el paso del tiempo, en emblema de la rebelión y la contracultura en el siglo XX, por la fidelidad a sí mismo y porque estuvo dispuesto a pagar por ello el más alto precio.
Baudelaire and Freud (Quantum Books)
by Leo BersaniThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity: From the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857-1912 (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
by Alessandro CabiatiThis book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year of publication of Baudelaire’s highly influential collection Les Fleurs du Mal, and 1912, when the first anthology of Futurist poetry, I poeti futuristi, was published in Milan. It focuses primarily on Baudelaire’s influence on the poetry of the Scapigliatura, a long-underrated movement which in the 1860s introduced a thematic and formal modernity into Italian literature, paving the way for Futurism and the twentieth-century avant-garde. This monograph also investigates Baudelaire’s and the Scapigliatura’s interrelated impacts on early Futurist poetry, demonstrating that Futurist poets turned to the works of Baudelaire and the Scapigliatura for inspiration on themes that were considered as distinctly unpoetic – and therefore modern – such as medical-anatomical examination, technological transformation, and abnormal sensuality.
Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict
by Frank HiltonAn acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for poetry, prostitutes, and drugs.A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern poetry is immense. In the English language, where his literary reputation is less well known, it is his link with drug culture that gives him contemporary resonance. It is commonly known that Baudelaire used opium. Many writers have described him as being addicted to the drug, but none of his biographers, Frank Hilton argues, has fully understood the effect of opiate addiction on the personality and, in the case of Baudelaire, the extent to which it damaged his life and work. In this original contribution to Baudelaire studies Hilton contends that the drug is at the root of all Baudelaire's problems and in particular--something that constantly tormented him--his chronic inability to apply himself to any prolonged creative work. Unquestionably, there is significantly more to Baudelaire than his opium addiction. But a proper awareness of what it did to the poet helps to illuminate those puzzling aspects of his life and behavior that were not previously understood. Written with the general reader in mind, Baudelaire in Chains will give those who know little or nothing about him a comprehensive picture of his life. To those who know a great deal it will present him in an unexpected light.
Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers
by Charles Baudelaire Lois And Hyslop Jr.Renowned poet Charles Baudelaire played a significant role in introducing Edgar Allan Poe to French readers by publishing widely read criticisms and translations of Poe's writings. The two writers shared an appreciation for the exotic, a taste for morbid subjects, and a devotion to artistic purity. Baudelaire immersed himself in the study of English for the express purpose of doing justice to Poe's works, and his translations established his reputation in the French literary world well before the publication of his most famous book of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal.In the first part of this study, "Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works," Baudelaire sketches his subject's biography and discusses several representative writings. Two additional essays analyze Poe's literary theories and offer intriguing reflections of Baudelaire's own sense of aesthetics. The compilation concludes with a critical miscellany of several other prefaces and notes on the American author and his works.
Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives
by MariaC. ScottMaria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth century, was naturally very keenly aware of the growing dominance of the bourgeoisie in France, not least as a market for art and literature. Despite being dependent on this market for his own writing, the poet was highly critical of bourgeois values and attitudes. Scott builds on existing criticism of the collection to argue that these are indirectly mocked in Le Spleen de Paris, often in the person of the poet's supposed textual alter ego. The contention is that the prose poems betray the trust of readers by way of an apparent transparency of meaning that functions to blind us to their embedded irony. Though focused on Le Spleen de Paris, Scott's study engages with the full range of Baudelaire's writings, including his art and literary criticism. Her book will be of interest not only to Baudelaire scholars but also to those engaged more generally with nineteenth-century French culture.
Baudelaire's Revenge: A Novel
by Bob Van LaerhovenWinner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for Best Crime Novel It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse, written in the poet's exact handwriting. Commissioner Lefevre, a lover of poetry and a veteran of the Algerian war, is on the case, and his investigation is a thrilling, intoxicating journey into the sinister side of human nature, bringing to mind the brooding and tense atmosphere of Patrick Susskind's Perfume. Did Baudelaire rise from the grave? Did he truly die in the first place? The plot dramatically appears to extend as far as the court of the Emperor Napoleon III. A vivid, intelligent, and intense historical crime novel that offers up some shocking revelations about sexual mores in 19th century France, this superb mystery illuminates the shadow life of one of the greatest names in poetry.
Baudelaire: Individualism, Dandyism and the Philosophy of History
by Bernard Howells"These essays take Baudelaire seriously as a thinker. Bernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century historical, cultural and artistic speculation, represented by Emerson, Carlyle, Joseph de Maistre, Giuseppe Ferrari and Eugene Chevreul."
Baudolino (Booket/columna Ser. #Vol. 28)
by Umberto EcoAventura picaresca, novela histórica, relato de un delito imposible, teatro de invenciones lingüísticas hilarantes, Umberto Eco traza una gigantesca crónica novelada de la Europa de los siglos XII y XIII. En una zona del bajo Piamonte, un pequeño campesino fantasioso y embustero llamado Baudolino conquista a Federico Barbarroja y se convierte en su hijo adoptivo. Casi milagrosamente, todo aquello que Baudolino imagina genera Historia. Entre otras cosas, crea la mítica carta del Preste Juan, que prometía a Occidente un reino fabuloso en el lejano Oriente, gobernado por un rey cristiano. Empujado por la invención de Baudolino, Federico emprende una cruzada para restituir al Preste Juan la más preciosa reliquia de la cristiandad, el Santo Grial. Federico morirá durante el viaje, en circunstancias misteriosas, pero su ahijado continuará hacia aquel reino lejano, entre monstruos de los bestiarios del medioevo y vicisitudes llenas de magia y hechizo. Reseña:«Baudolino es la novela más lúdica, rebosante de humor, fantasía y libertad absoluta escrita hasta el momento por Eco.»Mercedes Monmany, ABC
Baudolino: A Novel (Booket/columna Ser. #Vol. 28)
by Umberto EcoA self-confessed liar spins a fascinating tale of his life in this &“comic and brilliantly baffling&” historical novel by the author of The Name of the Rose (The Guardian, UK). Constantinople, 1204. The Byzantine capital is under siege by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors—and proceeds to regale him with the fantastical story of his life. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts: a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. As a boy he meets a foreign commander who adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, they decide to go in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John who is said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East. The kingdom they seek is a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs; of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens. With dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, extraordinary feeling, and vicarious reflections on our postmodern age, Baudolino is Eco the storyteller at his brilliant best.
Baumgartner's Bombay
by Anita DesaiDesai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.
Baustelle – Betreten auf eigene Gefahr! (Belladonna Arms (Deutsch) #2)
by John InmanGerade erst von seinem Liebhaber verlassen, sucht Harlie Rose Zuflucht im Belladonna Arms, einem schäbigen Mietshaus, hoch auf einem der Hügel in der Innenstadt von San Diego gelegen. Harlie ahnt nicht, dass sein neues Domizil dafür berüchtigt ist, Romanzen zu schmieden. Noch weniger ahnt er, dass er selbst das nächste Opfer sein wird. Er findet Arbeit in einem nahegelegenen Restaurant, wo er den Bäcker Milan kennenlernt, einen umwerfend attraktiven, aber etwas barschen und abweisenden Mann. Harlie weiß nicht, dass auch Milan unter einem gebrochenen Herzen leidet. Und so kommt es, wie es kommen muss – die beiden Männer belauern sich und errichten ihre Barrikaden. Keiner von ihnen ist bereit, sich einer neuen Liebe zu öffnen. Doch selbst das störrischste Herz kann erobert werden. Mit der Unterstützung seiner neuen Freunde – Sylvia, die nur noch auf ihre letzte Operation wartet, um endlich eine Frau zu werden; Arthur, die alternde Dragqueen, die ihre eigene Liebe findet; Stanley und Roger, das liebenswerte Paar aus 5C, das Harlie zum Vorbild wird – lernt er bald, dass im Belladonna Arms die Liebe hinter jeder Ecke lauert und nur darauf wartet, ein neues Opfer zu finden. Ob willig oder nicht. Doch die nächste Tragödie schwebt schon über ihnen.
Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 1
by David Gregory Ed Cray Paul Watt Patrick Spedding Derek B ScottThe songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.
Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 2
by David Gregory Ed Cray Paul Watt Patrick Spedding Derek B ScottThe songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.
Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 3
by David Gregory Ed Cray Paul Watt Patrick Spedding Derek B ScottThe songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.
Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 4
by David Gregory Ed Cray Paul Watt Patrick Spedding Derek B ScottThe songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away.Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.
Baxian Hotel: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Li GouHaiNoon people eat lunch, midnight soul knocks on the door. The Yang World cannot enter, the Underworld's soul does not exist. The Eight Immortals Hotel only cared about matters that it couldn't explain.My name is Xia Siche, the fourth manager of the Eight Immortals Hotel, nicknamed "the fourth boss".The previous three managers had all not lived past the age of 50, but the eight stewards on the eighth floor of the restaurant were concealing the secret of this hundred year old shop.And the story I want to tell starts from the eight stewards …
Baxian Hotel: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Li GouHaiNoon people eat lunch, midnight soul knocks on the door. The Yang World cannot enter, the Underworld's soul does not exist. The Eight Immortals Hotel only cared about matters that it couldn't explain.My name is Xia Siche, the fourth manager of the Eight Immortals Hotel, nicknamed "the fourth boss".The previous three managers had all not lived past the age of 50, but the eight stewards on the eighth floor of the restaurant were concealing the secret of this hundred year old shop.And the story I want to tell starts from the eight stewards …
Baxian Hotel: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Li GouHaiNoon people eat lunch, midnight soul knocks on the door. The Yang World cannot enter, the Underworld's soul does not exist. The Eight Immortals Hotel only cared about matters that it couldn't explain.My name is Xia Siche, the fourth manager of the Eight Immortals Hotel, nicknamed "the fourth boss".The previous three managers had all not lived past the age of 50, but the eight stewards on the eighth floor of the restaurant were concealing the secret of this hundred year old shop.And the story I want to tell starts from the eight stewards …
Baxter (The Puppy Place #19)
by Ellen MilesBased on the popularity of the White House's own pet, a Portuguese Water Dog is coming to the Puppy Place! Charles and Lizzie are so excited to take care of this specially bred Portuguese Water Dog. It's not every day that a dog like this is given up for fostering. But when the poor pooch has trouble living without his former owner, Lizzie needs to use all of her puppy knowledge to find the perfect home for this pup.
Baxter Moon: Galactic Scout
by John ZakourTwo ambassador ships have gone missing, and it's up to Baxter Moon, Galactic Scout 2nd Class, to find them. His first thought is "Holy bloop!" but his second is "Let's go!" After all, he is one of the best pilots at the Galactic Academy, and it's not like he's ever killed his whole crew in real life... only in simulations. But traveling through deep space with a large-but-dim mechanic, her genius twin, and a talking chimp isn't all it's cracked up to be. It will take all the good old fashioned instincts Baxter's got to navigate deep space, rescue the beautiful blue Aquarian princess, and save the world from a dangerous techno-race gone awry.It might be a lot to do in one day for the average teenager, but Baxter Moon isn't average.
Baxter is Missing (Owl Diaries #6)
by Rebecca ElliottEva Wingdale is totally distracted because her pet bat, Baxter, has gone missing, and she suspects that the sneaky squirrels have something to do with her missing pet.
Baxter is Missing: A Branches Book (Owl Diaries #6)
by Rebecca ElliottEva's pet bat, Baxter, is missing in the sixth installment of this New York Times bestselling series!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In book 6, a famous author is coming to Treetopolis! Eva and her classmates each have to write a story to share with the author. Eva's excited! But then something terrible happens: Her pet bat, Baxter, goes missing! Eva can't think of anything to write about -- except how much she misses Baxter! With help from her friends, Eva looks everywhere for Baxter. She even hangs up MISSING posters! Where could Baxter be? And will Eva finish her story in time for the author's visit?Continue this book series with “Eva the Owlet,” an Apple TV+ original series!
Baxter's Requiem
by Matthew Crow'The fact that this novel is so witty is incidental to how good it is - it has characters you care about deeply and a heart as big as a cathedral' Miles Jupp'The finest love story I have read in years. Perfect I'd say.' Phyllida Shrimpton, author of Sunflowers in FebruaryMr Baxter is ninety-four years old when he falls down his staircase and finds himself resident at Melrose Gardens Retirement Home.Baxter is many things - raconteur, retired music teacher, rabble-rouser, bon viveur; but 'good patient' he is not. Indeed, Melrose Gardens is his worst nightmare. Then he meets Gregory.Greg is just nineteen years old, but he has already suffered a loss so heavy that he is in danger of giving up on life before he even gets going. Seeing the boy's pain, Baxter decides to take him under his wing.Together they embark on a spirited journey to the war graves of Northern France, for Baxter to pay tribute to the love of his life; the man he waved off to fight in a senseless war; the man who never returned. As Baxter shares his memories, Gregory starts to see that life need not be a matter of mere endurance; that the world is huge and beautiful; that kindness is strength; and that the only way to honour the dead, is to live every last second we have while we're here.