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Flowers of Evil Author: [French] Baudelaire Translator: Zhang Qiuhong Publisher: Jiangxi People's Publishing House

Flowers of Evil Author: [French] Baudelaire Translator: Zhang Qiuhong Publisher: Jiangxi People's Publishing House

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Introduction · · · · · ·

"Flowers of Evil", which consists of more than one hundred poems, is carefully arranged by the poet into six organic parts, unfolding the poet's spiritual exploration in an orderly manner.

The first part, "Melancholy and Ideals", writes about melancholy and ideals. Melancholy is heavy and ideals are dim. Walking through the heavy melancholy, looking for the elusive ideal.

The second part, "Paris Scene", describes Paris in the poet's eyes, or in his heart. This is not a beautiful city, nor a prosperous "City of Flowers", but "a bustling city, a city full of dreams, / ghosts tugging at the sleeves of passers-by in broad daylight!" ("Seven Old Men") Baudelaire pulled the poet's vision from the romantic nature to the bizarre modern metropolis, but what people saw were deformed and perverted pictures.

The third part is titled "Wine", which describes the poet's helplessness and sadness of "drinking wine to drown his sorrows" and "taking wine for pleasure".

In the fourth part, “Flowers of Evil,” the poet turns from his drunken visions to confronting the “flowers” ​​of sin.

The fifth part, "Rebellion", is against God. Here, Cain and Satan are praised because they are victims and rebels. What people want is that their souls can "rest" next to Satan.

The sixth part is "Death". After experiencing suffering and seeing all the ugliness, death is the only destination and the only comfort. Death is the end of everything, but also a new beginning.

The entire collection of poems ends with a long poem entitled "Travel", which summarizes the poet's lifelong pursuit.

About the Author

Charles Baudelair (1821-1867) is a French poet. His works include the poetry collection "Flowers of Evil" and the prose poetry collection "Parisian Melancholy", as well as a large number of literary and aesthetic essays. He is considered to be a writer who has brought about major changes in the way Europeans experience and write. His aesthetic theory is a major turning point in the history of poetry and art, and is an inexhaustible source of inspiration and theory for various schools of modernism.

Guo Hongan was born in 1943 in Changchun, Jilin Province, and his native place is Laiwu County, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Department of Spanish at Peking University and the Department of Foreign Literature at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and concurrently serves as the deputy director of the institute's academic committee and the director of the Center for Comparative Literature Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association.

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