100 Zitate von Charles Baudelaire: Sammlung 100 Zitate

Geschrieben von Charles Baudelaire

Erzählt von Elodie Colin

Charles Baudelaire ist ein französischer Dichter. "Dante d'une époque déchue", in den Worten von Barbey d'Aurevilly, "tourné vers le classicisme, genährt von der Romantik", am Scheideweg zwischen Parnass und Symbolismus, ein Verfechter der "Modernität", nimmt er unter den französischen Dichtern einen beachtlichen Platz ein für eine Sammlung, die im Vergleich zum Werk seines Zeitgenossen Victor Hugo sicherlich kurz ist, die aber sein Leben geprägt haben wird: Die Blumen des Bösen. Diese 100 Zitate zielen darauf ab, den Zugang zu seinem monumentalen Werk durch eine Auswahl seiner markantesten Gedanken in einem für alle zugänglichen Format zu ermöglichen. Ein Zitat ist mehr als ein Auszug aus einer Aussage, es kann ein Gedankenstrich sein, eine Zusammenfassung eines komplexen Gedankens, eine Maxime, eine Öffnung zu einer tieferen Reflexion.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Astorg Germany
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1. Jan. 2020
• ISBN: 9782821165854

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet. Born in Paris, Baudelaire lost his father at a young age. Raised by his mother, he was sent to boarding school in Lyon and completed his education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he gained a reputation for frivolous spending and likely contracted several sexually transmitted diseases through his frequent contact with prostitutes. After journeying by sea to Calcutta, India at the behest of his stepfather, Baudelaire returned to Paris and began working on the lyric poems that would eventually become The Flowers of Evil (1857), his most famous work. Around this time, his family placed a hold on his inheritance, hoping to protect Baudelaire from his worst impulses. His mistress Jeanne Duval, a woman of mixed French and African ancestry, was rejected by the poet’s mother, likely leading to Baudelaire’s first known suicide attempt. During the Revolutions of 1848, Baudelaire worked as a journalist for a revolutionary newspaper, but soon abandoned his political interests to focus on his poetry and translations of the works of Thomas De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe. As an arts critic, he promoted the works of Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, composer Richard Wagner, poet Théophile Gautier, and painter Édouard Manet. Recognized for his pioneering philosophical and aesthetic views, Baudelaire has earned praise from such artists as Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and T. S. Eliot. An embittered recorder of modern decay, Baudelaire was an essential force in revolutionizing poetry, shaping the outlook that would drive the next generation of artists away from Romanticism towards Symbolism, and beyond. Paris Spleen (1869), a posthumous collection of prose poems, is considered one of the nineteenth century’s greatest works of literature.