Sick of syphilis, hemiplegia and aphasia, he died in 1867.

In 1860 he published Les Paradis Artificiels, then the following year a new version of Les Fleurs du Mal, from which six controversial poems were removed. With his publisher, Baudelaire had to pay a heavy fine and cancel some passages. The work was immediately condemned “for offending public morals”. In 1857, Baudelaire published his main work, the collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal. He then began writing poems which he published in magazines which, however, met with little public resonance. At the time he became an admirer of the works of Eugène Delacroix and Edgar Allan Poe, and of the latter he even translated some works. Placed under the legal guardianship of his family, he became a journalist and art critic for a living. Returning to Paris in 1842, Charles Baudelaire led a dissolute life and began squandering his father’s inheritance when he came of age. Of this journey, the only one he will make without finishing it, he will retain multiple impressions that will inspire him in some of his works. The authorīorn in 1821, Charles Baudelaire, fatherless at the age of 6, lived in a conflictual relationship with his stepfather, General Aupick.Įxpelled from high school Louis le Grand for his rebellious attitude towards authority, he nevertheless obtained his baccalaureate and chose a bohemian life in the Latin Quarter of Paris. And what poetry! Today, June 25, on the anniversary of the release of this work, we will tell you about its genesis, its creator and the themes.

If you remember, last week we talked about the birth of the gothic novel.Ĭertainly, Le Fleurs du Mal also has some decadent and goth elements but this time we find them in poetry. To leave a comment takes you just few moments, and lets me know that I didn’t waste my time (and will give me strength to create more free e-books).Īll proceedings go to server and coffee time.With Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal we continue a two-week “literary combo”. Released under Creative Commons – Attribution-Noncommercial licence (see the eBook for details).ĭownload here: Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal / Flowers of Evil (558pp, 6.59MB).Īfter you download the file, let me know what you think! Poems follow the order of 1861 edition of LFDM, with poems from 18 editions added in order where appropriate poems added in 1866’s Les Épaves are contained in final section of the book.Įnglish translation by William Aggeler (1954), Roy Campbell (1952), Cat Nilan (1999), Geoffrey Wagner (1974), Kenneth O. This book contains poems from all editions of Les Fleurs du Mal – the 1857, 1861, and 1868 editions – plus all new poems from Les Épaves. For your reading pleasure, I bring you a complete French-English edition of Charles Baudelaire‘s Les Fleurs du Mal / Flowers of Evil as a PDF eBook.

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