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Intimate Journals

by Baudelaire, Charles [Christopher Isherwood, translator]

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Hollywood: Marcel Rodd. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. The spine is sun-lightened and the gilt title is very pale. Rear cover has a tiny, light mark or two and two faint scratches. Tiny mark to front endpaper. Creases to corner of the half title. Lacks the dust jacket.; Charles Baudelaire was a poet, translator, and critic in 19th century France. He was known for his "prose poetry" and dark, sometimes controversial subject matter. His works were often judged as obscene and their publication suppressed. His journals, excerpted in this book, reveal a often lost, questioning man with contempt for others and for himself. The Translator's Preface by Christopher Isherwood is apt, describing Baudelaire's life of vice, absinthe, opium, debt to the point of financial ruin, contempt for ethics, instability, anger, madness, and brilliance as an author. Isherwood's friend W. H. Auden provides the Introduction which takes a high-level view of the philosophies and archetypes in Baudelaire's sphere. Entries in Baudelaire's journal are often non-linear, jumping between unrelated thoughts. An excerpt: "Notes. Squibs. Theodore de Banville is not precisely a materialist; he gives forth light./His poetry represents happy hours./Whenever you receive a letter from a creditor write fifty lines upon some extra-terrestrial subject and you will be saved./A great smile on the beautiful face of a giant." In brown cloth over boards with Baudelaire's facsimile signature in gilt blind stamp to the front. The self-portrait frontis and six plates of portraits and figures are ink drawings by Baudelaire. Printed on cream paper by American Book-Stratford Press, New York. A clean attractive copy that's Very Good+.; Drawings; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 128 pages .

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Intimate Journals
Author
Baudelaire, Charles [Christopher Isherwood, translator]
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Publisher
Marcel Rodd
Place of Publication
Hollywood
Date Published
1947
Keywords
Diary, Journal, Poet, Literary Figure
Bookseller catalogs
Memoir;

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