The Flower of Evil (Guomai Classic)

"Flowers of Evil" is a masterpiece of French poet Baudelaire, which established his position in the history of French and even world poetry. This classic poem shows evil and the relationship between good and evil surrounding evil through poetry. Baudelaire broke through the centuries-old view of good and evil and looked at evil from a dialectical point of view. He believed that evil has a dual nature. It has an evil side and exudes a special kind of beauty. On the one hand, it corrodes and infringes on human beings, and on the other hand, it is full of challenge and resistance spirit, inspiring people to fight against their own laziness and social injustice. Therefore, Baudelaire both hates and praises evil, fears and yearns for it. He lives in evil; but he strives not to be swallowed up by evil. Instead, he faces evil with a critical eye, dissects evil, and refines the flowers of evil. In the process of creation, Baudelaire inherited, developed and deepened romanticism and opened the way for symbolism. At the same time, his poems shone with the brilliance of realism and classicism. In terms of the rigor of the meter and the clarity of the structure, he can be said to be a follower of classicism; in terms of the choice of subject matter and rich imagination, he is an inheritor of romanticism; in terms of the creation of artistic conception and the comprehensive expression techniques, he is the founder of modernism. This richness and complexity make his poems have readers at all levels, and make him a spiritual leader that many schools compete with each other. He is labeled as Decadent, Aesthetic, Classical, Parnassian, Realist, etc. Symbolism and Surrealism also regard him as their pioneer and originator. This edition of "Flowers of Evil" was translated from the 1868 version by French literary translator Mr. Zhang Qiuhong. The translation was revised in 2016. It also comes with a 10,000-word introduction by French translator Mr. Hu Xiaoyue to better understand the classic!