Baudelaire

As a child, Charles Baudelaire wanted to be an actor. This fantasy is very serious: it reveals all the importance that Baudelaire attaches to artifice, the founding element of his dandyism. Far from being frivolous or juvenile, Dandyism represents for him a philosophy which he claims and manifests as much by his life as by his work. Among other themes, this innovative biography of the author of Les fleurs du mal brings many questions of the Romantic poet's gesture.--Translation of page 4 of cover by Éditions Perrin.