「這還是《惡之華》，但更自由、細膩、辛辣。」

《巴黎的憂鬱》是一種詩意的散文，沒有節奏及韻腳的音樂，所有篇章都能互為開頭或結尾，讀者能夠將其隨意切割、組合。波特萊爾在這本散文詩集中運用象徵主義手法捕捉了現代城市的生活之美。透過這些作品我們能夠窺見巴黎如畫的街景與波特萊爾的人生哲理，詩人對於美好理想的想望以及面對現實世界產生的憂鬱也蘊含其中。

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.

Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry – a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age – and one of the founding texts of literary modernism. This volume also includes Baudelaire’s 1851 essay ‘Wine and Hashish’.

ISBN:9781847494931