by Charles Baudelaire · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253014386
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«Les Paradis artificiels» is the essay by Charles Baudelaire, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Written in 1860, the book brings together two texts in which Baudelaire examines hashish and opium: «Le Poème du haschisch» and «Un mangeur d'opium», a free recreation of Thomas De Quincey's confessions. It describes the intoxication, visions and longing for infinity that drugs provoke, but also their deception: voluptuousness turns into torture and the dreamlike journey ends in a return to spleen.
Edition by Jean-Luc Steinmetz, with introduction and notes, in the Classiques collection from Le Livre de Poche.
For readers of French and nineteenth-century literature, with an interest in philosophical essays and classics on drugs and consciousness.
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
