Charles Baudelaire / Roger Wild - Les Fleurs du Mal - 1942

Exciting numbered edition 331 on laid paper and illustrated with this bibliophilic presentation of one of the most important and most innovative collections of French poetry of the 19th century -

First published in 1857, the work holds a pivotal place in the history of modern literature, for Baudelaire transforms poetry into a space for exploring beauty, evil, desire, melancholy, death, and the contradictions of the human condition -

The title itself summarizes the poetic project: to give birth to beauty from subjects considered dark, troubling, or morally condemnable, and to show that poetry can achieve grandeur both in the ideal and in degradation -

The collection is organized around several major sections that allow the reader to follow the inner movements of the poet, from the longing for the ideal to the fall, to revolt and to a fascination with death -

Charles Baudelaire / Roger Wild - Les Fleurs du Mal - 1942 - Éditions Emile-Paul Frères -
282 Pages.

Very good condition of the binding, paperback in its full original soft cover, small stains and signs of use, a few minor defects on the cover, edges slightly worn, spine smooth titled in blue, as well as the first cover page -

Very good interior condition, browned paper, title page printed in blue and black, the work enriched with numerous and beautiful engravings outside the text including the frontispiece, after drawings by Roger Wild, copy on laid paper numbered 331 -

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