A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of
history's most celebrated writers.
Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of
Evil, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La
Fanfarlo. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair the poet
had with Jean Duval, a dancer whose beauty and sexuality Baudelaire came
to obsess over. The outcome is a work of raw emotional power and a clear
distillation of the Parisian's poetic genius. As Baudelaire himself
said, "Always be a poet, even in prose."
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