"This is the fullest and fairest of the half-dozen books on Rimbaud in English. No single volume so complete exists even in French."--Roger Shattuck (The New York Times)

In this life of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Claude Pichois draws on a century's worth of research and scholarship to present a definitive portrait of one of the strangest ...

This short treatise is an enlightening introduction to Charles Beaudelaire and his most famous volume of poetry, "Les Fleurs du Mal" of 1857. No one has yet succeeded, no one ...

Criticism and interpretation of French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.