Rhapsodies 1831

by Pétrus Borel

'Borel was the sun, ' said Th ophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800172206
• ISBN13: 9781800172203
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Carcanet Classics
• Length: 96 Pages