- Title
- Charles Baudelaire's Paris spleen: re-presenting Paris
- Creator
- Rolls, Alistair
- Relation
- Remembering Paris in Text and Film p. 21-38
- Relation
- https://www.intellectbooks.com/remembering-paris-in-text-and-film
- Publisher
- Intellect
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- When Jean-Michel Gouvard (2015: 140) opens his article on Charles Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris and its relationship to Paris by stating that ‘contrary to what the title of the collection might lead you to believe, all the “little prose poems” are not set in Paris’, it is difficult to know whether he is being ironic or not. In the frame-work of the present volume, which has Paris firmly centre stage and, crucially, present even when it is ostensibly absent, this appears a surprisingly literal comment to make about Baudelaire’s final work. Certainly, Gouvard immediately goes some way to softening his opening gambit. He refers to other readers, for whom the prose poems are by turns ‘exotic in character’ (set on far-flung desert islands or in fairy-tale fantasy lands) or positioned non-specifically but recognizably ‘beyond the city walls’, in the faubourgs, areas that have since been integrated into Paris intra-muros and whose present-day equivalents are the suburban spaces of la banlieue. And yet, other references throughout the prose poems are undeniably to Paris itself.
- Subject
- Paris; text and film; Paris Spleen; Jean-Michel Gouvard
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446427
- Identifier
- uon:42867
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781789384185
- Language
- eng
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