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The Flowers of Evil: The Definitive English Language Edition by Charles Baudelaire, Nathan Brown (translator) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“There is no complete English translation available as good as Nathan Brown’s. Brown is extremely adept with his lexical choices, deftly finding words which at once preserve the nineteenth-century context but also are striking in tone and nuance. His versions do a fine job of maintaining the cutting edge of the original, and he avoids preciosity and literariness throughout, without falling into either a drab tonality of ‘translatorese’ or overcompensating in the other direction with forced and inappropriater enderings. This accounts for one of the book’s most notable and precious virtues: versions which are painstakingly literal without being bland—a truly outstanding feature of his renderings.” Daniel Katz, editor of Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTY Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Charles Baudelaire, Nathan Brown (translator)
Publisher
Verso Books
Published
2025
Language
EN
ISBN
9781804296622
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Poetry, European Poetry, Humanities

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