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Article: Logiques du dernier Baudelaire: Lectures du "Spleen de Paris".(Champion Classiques)(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Logiques du dernier Baudelaire: lectures du 'Spleen de Paris'. By STEVE MURPHY. (Champion Classiques) Paris: Champion. 2007. 732 pp. [euro]16. ISBN 978-2-7453-1580-9.
In the last twenty years or so critics of Baudelaire's late collection of prose poems Le Spleen de Paris have tended to fall into one of two categories: on the one hand there are those who take their cue from Walter Benjamin's seminal study of the more famous verse poems, Les Fleurs du mal, by adopting a predominantly thematic approach which emphasizes Baudelaire's iconic role as the spokesperson of a 'crisis of modernity' whose poetry is primarily symptomatic of the 'shocks' or traumas of urban ...