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Baudelaire on Beauty, Love, Prostitutes and Modernity


Baudelaire on Beauty, Love, Prostitutes and Modernity
In Baudelaire, beauty is horror, and horror, beauty. The source, or origin, of beauty doesn’t matter. Beauty is what beauty does, and nothing can save us from its devouring force.
The dark power of Baudelaire’s poetry in Le Fleur Du Mal/ The Flowers of Evil is best experienced when it disturbs and is difficult to access. Photo: anncapictures/Pixabay
In his celebrated essay on Charles Baudelaire,
The Aesthetic Dignity of the ‘Fleurs du Mal’, the philologist, Erich Auerbach ended with a brilliant observation while addressing “the horror of
Les Fleur Du Mal”. Auerbach had “a word… in defense of certain critics who have resolutely rejected the book. Not all of them, but a few, had a better understanding of it than many contemporary and subsequent admirers. A statement of horror is better understood by those who feel the horror in their bones, even if they react against it, ....

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