Baudelaire: Critical Study

by Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Baudelaire, Charles) Turnell

Book Overview

Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. We may often disagree with his interpretations of the poet's personality, but we cannot fail to wonder at the mastery with which he presents his case. It is the case, quite patently, of an Existentialist who wishes to psychoanalyze a paramount literary figure in terms of his own beliefs.

Perhaps Sartre's greatest contribution to Existentialism has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811201899
• ISBN13: 9780811201896
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

You will definately need to really understand his writing be

I thought this book was difficult to get into to but there are sharp questions to hit on throughtout it.