Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium and Haschisch
by Baudelaire, Charles
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
A rare landmark work of 19th century drug literature, which provided the term "artificial paradise" for the drug experience. "The great French symbolist poet was one of the original members of Le Club des Haschischins, which included, at one time or another, the cream of French literary society. Health problems made him a frequent user of opium as well. Baudelaire's poetic intensity, combined with a scientific detachment, place his work among the greatest accounts of the philosophy of drug experience" (Phantastica 14, referring to this copy). Carteret I:126; Clouzot, p. 27. A Horowitz high spot.
Synopsis
Ceux qui savent s'observer eux-memes et qui gardent la memoire de leurs impressions, ceux-la qui ont su, comme Hoffmann, construire leur barometre spirituel, ont eu parfois a noter, dans l'observatoire de leur pensee, de belles saisons, d'heureuses journees, de delicieuses minutes. Il est des jours ou l'homme s'eveille avec un genie jeune et vigoureux. ses paupieres a peine dechargees du sommeil qui les scellait, le monde exterieur s'offre a lui avec un relief puissant, une nettete de contours, une richesse de couleurs admirables.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140945443
- Title
- Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium and Haschisch
- Author
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first issue
- Publisher
- Poulet-Malassis et De Broise
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- hashish, drugs, drug, symbolism, poetry, 19th century, France, French, intoxication opium,
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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