Fanfarlo
Only poets are innocent enough to invent such monstrosities. Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La Fanfarlo. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair the poet had with Jean Duval, a dancer whose beauty and sexuality Baudelaire came to obsess over. The outcome is a work of raw emotional power and a clear distillation of the Parisian's poetic genius. As Baudelaire himself said, "Always be…
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- Full title :Fanfarlo / Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Edward K. Kaplan.
Summary
Only poets are innocent enough to invent such monstrosities. Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La Fanfarlo. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair the poet had with Jean Duval, a dancer whose beauty and sexuality Baudelaire came to obsess over. The outcome is a work of raw emotional power and a clear distillation of the Parisian's poetic genius. As Baudelaire himself said, "Always be a poet, even in prose."
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- Publication Date:2012
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Melville House Publishing
- Place of Publication:Brooklyn, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012
The Physical Object
- Description:66 pages ; : 18 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781612191096, 1612191096
- oclc:ocn809165352
- LC Classification:PQ2191
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