{"product_id":"paris-spleen-dual-language-edition-9781847499035","title":"Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Baudelaire\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Alma Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Alma Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"Alma Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45036108710039,"sku":"9781847499035","price":873.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781847499035.webp?v=1769212745","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/paris-spleen-dual-language-edition-9781847499035","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}