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The Flowers of Evil

By: Charles Baudelaire, James N. McGowan - translator
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 III’s government prosecuted Baudelaire for "an insult to public decency"; six of the poems were banned until as recently as 1949.

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Public Domain (P)2018 Naxos AudioBooks Classics European Love Poetry Themes & Styles World Literature
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Baudelaire covers such a wide range of human experience and it is great to have this audio version, superbly performed by Jonathan Keeble. Highly recommended.

Superb rendition of a voice which deserves to be heard

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