Charles Baudelaire ‘Into this atrocious book, I put all my heart…’ – Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire’s most famous work is his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil (1857), which shocked the nineteenth-century French literary world with its outspoken descriptions of lesbian … Continue reading →
Fanfarlo is Charles Baudelaire’s only novella, first published in 1847, ten years before the publication of The Flowers of Evil. In Fanfarlo, a semi-autobiographical tale, the protagonist, Samuel Cramer attempts to help a married woman whose husband is involved with an erotic dancer named … Continue reading →
Charles Baudelaire’s erotic poems caused a scandal on their publication in 1857. The author and the publisher were prosecuted for publishing poems that were ‘an insult to public decency’ and six of the poems from that collection were suppressed. Those poems … Continue reading →
by Charles Baudelaire – Translated by R J Dent
Charles Baudelaire, poète maudit, the self-styled Satanic man whose seminal collection THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (Les Fleurs du Mal) is marked by paeans to sexual degradation such as The Litanies Of Satan and
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