Les Fleurs Du Mal - Softcover

Charles Baudelaire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879234628 ISBN 13: 9780879234621

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2008

Synopsis

This translation of Baudelaire's magnum opus perhaps the most powerful and influential book of verse from the 19th century - won the American Book Award for Translation. And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard's greatest efforts. It's all here: a timeless translation, the complete French text, and Mazur's striking black and white monotypes in one elegant edition.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"BAUDELAIRE REVOICED . . .

Howard's achievement is such that we can be confident that his Flowers of Evil will long stand as definitive, a superb guide to France's greatest poet." -- The Nation

"Readers of English do not have to take Baudelaire on faith any longer. For the first time he is present among us, vivid and surprisingly intact, in these fine translations." -- The New York Times Book Review

"A deft and patient new translation of Les Fleurs Du Mal. . . . Howard, it seems to me, has done what he has set out to, has given us, in English and in verse, a Baudelaire both immediately recognizable and impressively varied. . . . It is a considerable achievement." -- The New York Review of Books

"Not until now has there been an edition of the entire work which successfully captures the distinctive voice of Baudelaire. . . . The level of success among 151 lyrics is so high as to guarantee that Richard Howard's will be the definitive translation in the foreseeable future." -- The Boston Globe

"Richard Howard, generally esteemed as the finest American translator from the French of the postwar era, offers a new version of this masterpiece. . . . It is indubitably the English edition to acquire." -- The Washington Post Book World

"[An] intelligent responsiveness to the poem's meaning informs almost every translation in this volume." -- The New Republic

About the Author:

(1811-1872). Theophile Gautier debute dans la peinture, puis se fait poete par admiration pour Victor Hugo. Parti du romantisme flamboyant, il va devenir l'un des chefs de file de la jeune poesie parnassienne des annees 1860. Poete, romancier, journaliste, grand voyageur a la curiosite insatiable, il a marque la vie litteraire de son temps.

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0879234628
• ISBN 13: 9780879234621
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400