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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 841.8 B338 | Available | 33111005636374 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Initially composed for newspaper publication and inspired by Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater , Charles Baudelaire's intriguing essays take a remarkably stark look at the use and effects of drink and drugs. Along the way he asserts the ambivalence of memory, urges a union of willpower and sensual pleasure, and claims that wine and hashish bring about an escape from narrative time. Surprisingly forward and positive in tone, this is a unique investigation from one of the great 19th-century poets.
This translation originally published: 2002.
Translated from the French.