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“With this book Baudelaire transfigured poetry and opened new ways of perception. If I had to pick one poem it would be "La Chambre Double"
Aurélie T wrote this review Wednesday, November 11, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Like Baudelaire said his project was "le miracle d'une prose poétique, musicale sans rythme et sans rime"”
“read it for a class. Interesting to discuss under the tutelage of a good professor.”
Rick R. wrote this review Saturday, July 25, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I didn't like this book as well as I thought I would. Baudelaire is a fine writer and thinker, but I guess I was hoping for more of a book about Paris — what it was like to live there in his time, what it looked like, felt like, what the people were like. There is a little of that, but much more navel gazing. The short prose poems that constitute the book touch on many universal human truths about women, children, friends, etc., but I just didn't get what I was hoping for. Still, Baudelaire is one of the greats, and his greatness is evident here in bits and pieces.”
Geoff Schumacher wrote this review Monday, June 8, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Even in 21st century, lots of people think that poetry is all about being soft, selfpitying and sentimental, so it is always good to remember that right there in the middle of 19th century there was a man who knew that poetry can also be (self)ironic and brutally honest... First truly modern poet.”
Svjetlana S wrote this review Friday, February 6, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“simply fantastic, classic. worth reading the original and translations side by side, because the french wording is unequaled. ”
postcards wrote this review Friday, September 5, 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's the
lolita j wrote this review Saturday, March 15, 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks
your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what?Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be
drunk”
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