刘楠祺

Liu Nanqi is an author about whom limited public information is available; his writing and translation work centers mainly on the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Three of his works are listed here: Les Fleurs du mal: Annotated Poems of Baudelaire, The Correspondence of Baudelaire (2 volumes), and a title rendered as Speculative Rhetoric. Judging from these titles, his work combines poetic annotation and the editing of epistolary documents with essayistic writing that carries a speculative bent, attending both to close reading of the original texts and their contexts and to discussion at the level of criticism and rhetoric. His works are commonly classified under literature and prose miscellany, offering readers a way into Baudelaire's poetry and into the thoughts and life revealed in his letters.