Les Fleurs du Mal
Quand il venait à Paris, le grand écrivain marocain Mohamed Choukri ne manquait jamais d'aller se recueillir sur le cénotaphe de Baudelaire au cimetière du Montparnasse. Devant la vieille pierre isolée, verte de mousse, Mohamed Choukri pleurait et appelait en vain : "Charles où es-tu ?" C'est en souvenir de Mohamed Choukri et de son adoration pour Baudelaire, dont il pouvait réciter par coeur chacun de ses poèmes, que nous avons souhaité faire cette édition, ornée par quelques-uns des artistes qui ont illustré les Fleurs du Mal. Car la question se pose encore aujourd'hui, plus brûlante que jamais : "Charles où es-tu ?"
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK: ; US: ; French: ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) 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.
His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrialising Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. He coined the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist.
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