The Flowers of Evil
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature lovers who love poetry, especially those interested in French Symbolism and the roots of modern poetry
- Thoughtful readers who wish to understand modern urban culture, human complexity, and aesthetic paradoxes
- Scholars and students of literature, philosophy, or art who need to study classic texts closely
- Readers dissatisfied with superficial reading who are willing to challenge their aesthetic habits and explore the spirit deeply
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking light entertainment or purely recreational reading
- Readers strongly uncomfortable with melancholy, dark themes, or complex imagery
Reading tips
- Read the preface or an accompanying introduction first to learn about Baudelaire's life and era, which helps grasp the context in which the collection was written.
- First-time readers need not rush; read poem by poem, savoring key pieces (such as 'To the Reader,' 'A Carcass,' and 'Spleen IV') to feel the layered tension of the imagery.
- Extend your reading with critical essays on Baudelaire or Symbolist art for a fuller perspective.
About the publisher
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序
- 致读者
- 忧郁与理想
- 祝福
- 信天翁
- 飞天
- 通感
- 灯塔
- 患病的诗神
- 唯利是图的诗神
- 坏修士
- 大敌
- 厄运
- 前生
- 漫游四方的波希米亚人
- 人与海
- 地狱里的唐璜
- 美
- 美的赞歌
- 异国的芬芳
- 秀发
- 27 （她的衣衫轻拂飘动）
- 起舞的蛇
- 腐尸
- 吸血鬼
- 死后的悔恨
- 猫
- 阳台
- 全部
- 42 （今晚你要说什么）
- 活火炬
- 通功
- 黄昏的和声
- 香水瓶
- 毒药
- 猫
- 美丽的船
- 邀游
- 秋之歌
- 下午之歌
- 忧愁与漂泊
- 猫
- 猫头鹰
- 烟斗
- 音乐
- 破钟
- 忧郁之一
- 忧郁之二
- 忧郁之三
- 忧郁之四
- 自惩者
- 时钟
- 巴黎风光
- 赠给一个红发女乞丐
- 天鹅
- 七个老头儿
- 小老太婆
- 盲人
- 赌博
- 巴黎的梦
- 黎明
- 酒
- 酒魂
- 拾荒者的酒
- 情侣的酒
- 恶之花
- 被害的女人 ——一个不为人知的大师的绘画
- 基西拉岛之游
- 爱神和颅骨
- 叛逆
- 圣彼得的否认
- 献给撒旦的连祷
- 死亡
- 情侣之死
- 穷人之死
- 艺术家之死
- 一天的结束
- 怪人之梦
- 旅行
- 增补诗
- 反叛者
- 静思
- 深渊
- 莱斯沃斯
- 忘川
- 献给过分快活的女子
- 首饰
- 喷泉
- 赞歌
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About the author
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a French poet, translator, and critic of literature and art. His poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, published in 1857, takes city life, sensory experience, and melancholy as its themes, with concise language and intense imagery. It is regarded as one of the most influential poetry collections in nineteenth-century Europe, and he is seen as a forerunner of Symbolism and an important source of literary modernism. His prose poetry collection Le Spleen de Paris represents an early experiment in the genre. He also wrote art criticism such as The Painter of Modern Life, and his letters have been preserved. The library holds 11 of his works, including poetry, prose poetry, criticism, and correspondence, commonly classified under foreign literature, classical poetry, and prose miscellany.
Zheng Kelu (1939–2020) was a renowned Chinese translator of French literature and an expert in foreign literary studies, and served as a professor at Shanghai Normal University. Born in Macau in 1939, he graduated from the Department of Western Languages at Peking University in 1962, where he studied under Li Jianwu. Over decades of scholarship and translation, he rendered a large number of French literary classics into Chinese, including Les Misérables, The Count of Monte Cristo, Notre-Dame de Paris, The Little Prince, The Second Sex, and Les Fleurs du mal, covering novels, poetry, and works in the social sciences. His translations, faithful and fluent, have had a broad influence on Sino-French literary exchange and the popularization of classics, and in 2012 he received the Fu Lei Translation and Publication Award.
