name: Les_fleurs_du_mal isbn: 2070315088 isbn: 0192835459 isbn13: 9782070315086 title: Les fleurs du mal title: The Flowers of Evil author: Charles Baudelaire publisher: Gallimard year: 1861 start: 2005-06-10 stop: 2005-06-29
Second reading. I first read it as a teenager back in highschool and I only remember that I had liked it a lot. Having mostly forgotten it all, I'm decided to have another go at it and see if I still relate to it as a grownup.
I have a new found appreciation for the power of metaphor and the work of the poet.
Some quick, rough notes:
It is pointless for the artist to explain himself to others. People with the right sensibility will understand on their own those without will never understand anyway.
Le voyage and the principle of "la fuite en avant."