Le Spleen de Paris

by Charles Baudelaire, Ligaran

Overview

Extrait : "L'ETRANGER - Qui aimes-tu le mieux, homme énigmatique, dis ? ton père, ta mère, ta sœur ou ton frère ? — Je n'ai ni père, ni mère, ni sœur, ni frère. — Tes amis ? — Vous vous servez là d'une parole dont le sens m'est resté jusqu'à ce jour inconnu. — Ta patrie ? — J'ignore sous quelle latitude elle est située. — La beauté ? — Je l'aimerais volontiers, déesse et immortelle."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782335005387
Publisher:	Ligaran
Publication date:	02/04/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	464 KB
Language:	French

About the Author

Charles Baudelaire: Baudelaire (1821-1867) was France's most influential nineteenth-century poet. He was also a brilliant critic. A controversial figure in his lifetime, his collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) is regarded as a masterpiece.

Francis Scarfe: Francis Scarfe (1911-1986) was a lecturer in French poetry at Glasgow University before and again after World War II. From 1959 to 1978, he was director of the British Institute. In recognition of his contribution to Anglo-French cultural relations he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1962), and for his work on Baudelaire he was awarded the Prix de L'Ile Saint-Louis (1966); on his retirement in 1978 he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He was the author of four collections of poetry and of the critical works Auden and After and André Chénier, His Life and Work.