The Flowers of Evil & Artificial Paradise (Solar Nocturnal)

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“Baudelaire was the first incarnation of the modern mind.”–Guillaume Apollinaire The Flowers of Evil is presented in a new translation that vividly brings Baudelaire’s masterpiece to life for the twenty-first century. The volume also includes key texts from Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradise, his notorious examination of the effects of intoxication by alcohol and psychotropic drugs. In “On Wine And Hashish” and “The Poem Of Hashish,” Baudelaire brilliantly evokes the agony and ecstasy of addiction.