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Article: Hilton, Frank. Baudelaire in Chains: Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict.(Book Review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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- September 22, 2005
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Hilton, Frank. Baudelaire in Chains: Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict. New York: Peter Owen Publishers, 2004. Pp. 288. ISBN O-7206-1180-6
It is always tempting to make a great literary master our contemporary, to bring his voice down from the lofty summit of canonization and make him into "one of us" into someone who, despite his genius, still has to deal with life's daily problems: parents, debts, love, job, addictions and so forth. Where Baudelaire is concerned, such an attitude seems authorized by the poet himself. His wry prose poem, "Perte d'Aureole," depicts the felicitous loss of the poet's halo in the hustle and bustle of the modern city, freeing ...