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Carole said:
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Although the favorite translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleur du Mal chosen by lesfleursdumal.org, this book seems to be out of print & challenging to obtain. The copy that arrived yesterday, a paperback, is so ancient that it seems ready to fall apartAlthough the favorite translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleur du Mal chosen by lesfleursdumal.org, this book seems to be out of print & challenging to obtain. The copy that arrived yesterday, a paperback, is so ancient that it seems ready to fall apart if I even open it. A paperback, far more brown than white & with an odor to match, I'm not sure if it fills the bill for our bookclub required reading. I can see the book falling apart even before we meet. Meanwhile, the 2011 translation I recently downloaded to my kindle seems far from ideal too - written in blank verse with hanging punctuation among it's most obvious faults. My research will continue for a brief time before we really need to begin reading. Today I managed to get beyond the age & brownness of the book & found the translation was superior to the latest translation I have on my Kindle. Also, interestingly, the pagination of the paperback is ideal, with French & English versions facing each other, something that Kindle can never aspire to. In fact the pages of the Kindle translation are very annoying & prove hard to navigate as usual. However, this translation is only of some of the poems & the Kindle version has them all. Fairly easy reading but dense, like the best poetry, & demanding multiple readings before I can be ready for Colley Book Club....more
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Carole said:
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Hypnotically well written. A delight to read. for me, it is full of nostalgia for the England the author & I were both born into. It is tempting to give up everything except reading this book.
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