Les Fleurs du Mal - Die Blumen des Bösen

The new translation of a classic on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire's death. A bilingual edition. Few works have influenced European poetry as profoundly as "Les Fleurs du Mal" (1857) by the decadent and dandy Charles Baudelaire. Upon its release in France, it caused a huge scandal, was banned and burned multiple times, and this collection of poems has become a central text of modernity. The main theme of "The Flowers of Evil" is the biopsy of the abyss that gapes within a subject enduring the emergence of modern consciousness as a spiritual ordeal. The "evil" of these flowers does not refer to a moral category or ethical judgment, but rather to the relentless analysis of the demonic at the root of every existential experience. With its linguistic magic, its exorcisms of despair, and its aestheticization of the macabre and bizarre.