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Article: La Femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l'amour.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2006
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La Femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l'amour. By SOPHIE BOYER. (Allemagne d'hier et d'aujourd'hui) Paris: L'Harmattan. 2004. xi+322pp. 29 [euro]. ISBN 2-7475-7822-4.
Comparisons of Heine and Baudelaire are not entirely new terrain: the first to identify parallels between the two poets was Baudelaire himself, in an unfinished draft letter to Jules Janin in the 1860s, defending Heine against the critic's denunciation and aligning himself with Heine's aesthetic, characterized in Baudelaire's eyes by sadness, irony, dissonance, pain, a longing for death, and a sense of decadence. Subsequent commentators, including Walter Benjamin, ...