lettres a sa mere

by Charles Baudelaire

The inner torments of the poet, critic, and translator are revealed in his letters to his mother over the course of 33 years and ending just prior to his death at the age of 46._"The intimate and profoundly moving letters reveal the tragedy of a sensitive mind, reveal the heartbreaking bitterness and hope and struggle of a man unfitted to combat the implacabilities of life." THE INDEPENDENT

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1866

About the author

Public condemned Les fleurs du mal (1857), obscene only volume of French writer, translator, and critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire; expanded in 1861, it exerted an enormous influence over later symbolist and modernist poets.

Reputation of Charles Pierre Baudelaire rests primarily on perhaps the most important literary art collection, published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his early experiment Petits poèmes en prose (1868) ( Little Prose Poems ) most succeeded and innovated of the time.

From financial disaster to prosecution for blasphemy, drama and strife filled life of known Baudelaire with highly controversial and often dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Long after his death, his name represents depravity and vice. He seemingly speaks directly to the 20th century civilization.