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Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil

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·May 9, 2025
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The_Blade

as a Siene (and many other rivers in faraway lands) of techies everyone can understand the concept, Baudelaire felt, of being and then creating alone in a crowd

gregschlom

As a husband and cat person, I can relate to this one: https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132

kccqzy

I remember in college when I took French classes the professor very highly recommended Fleurs du mal. It was too difficult to read for students with just one year of French, but I remember reading some translations and liked them.

jfengel

I'm pleased: I'm nearly through Duolingo French and I can more or less read that.

I've done a fair bit of outside study, including a few (young adult) books. But it's nice to think that I could perhaps pass a college French class.

coderatlarge

i’ll confess my 18-year old self viewed this type of poetry and french class itself through a rather narrow, pragmatic lens…

johnea

I think the anime based on this is pretty widely known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flowers_of_Evil_(manga)