Paris Spleen [Paperback]

Set 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 cadenced prose beats in perfect time with the pulse of the slumbering city, where only the strange is awake. The atmosphere is old, dirty, often sordid, and yet, somehow, glorious.... The translation is almost perfect.He possessed, as it were, a profound intuition of the obstinate, amorphous contingency which is life...One of the founding texts of literary modernism.