{"product_id":"paris-spleen-dual-language-edition-9781847499035","title":"Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry - a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age - and one of the founding texts of literary Modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Baudelaire (1821-67) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations and prose poems have been equally influential.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alma Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645223276818,"sku":"9781847499035","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae3b8613-6576-4f1b-95a8-8f6c3908624b.jpg?v=1733144349","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paris-spleen-dual-language-edition-9781847499035","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}