Baudelaire;: The paradox of redemptive satanism

by Pierre Emmanuel

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Pierre Emmanuel seminal study of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal argues that the poet was neither a conventional Catholic or a Satanist but a spiritual seeker. Chapters include "Erotic Religion", "Archetype", "Aesthetic Spirituality" and "God's Part." This first-rate scholarly work originally appearing in France in 1967 includes a preface, chronology, abbreviations, translator's notes, bibliography, lists of poems by number and title, and index of personal names. -- Amazon.com.

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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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841.8Literature & rhetoricFrench LiteratureFrench poetryLater 19th century, 1848–1900
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PQ2191 .Z5 .E413Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesFrench literatureModern literature19th century

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