The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire
Apr 2018 · Naxos AudioBooks · Narrated by Jonathan Keeble
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Sensual, macabre, joyous and liberating, The Flowers of Evil, or Les Fleurs du Mal, is a beautifully debauched reflection on dreams, sin, life and death. With subjects ranging from travel to drugs, sex to faith, sleep to contemplation, Baudelaire finds new beauty in the most sinister and corrupt of situations. His morbid and nightmarish Romanticism was completely unique: cynical and bleak, but also inspiring, lifted by magnificent imagery and melodious language. The book was highly controversial upon its release and Napoleon IIIÕs government prosecuted Baudelaire for Ôan insult to public decencyÕ; six of the poems were banned until as recently as 1949.
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