Friday, April 09, 2021

Beers & Books LXVIII – Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire (9 April 1821 –  31 August 1867)

Les Fleurs du mal

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  1. Two beer and book posts in one day??? And another one I would happily raise a glass to (but not beer).

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    1. Coincidence, Sue. Rabelais died, Baudelaire was born on a 9th of April. Cheers!

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  2. Just googled this Author/Poet. Remarcable person, can't help but observe that opium and laudanum featured a lot in that era. That nudged me in the direction of Wilkie Coliins and those two profound novels - The Moonstone and Woman in White.

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    1. Ah, you got nudged in a fine direction, Mark. The novels I mean, not the laudanum. As it happens, I enjoyed a piece of poppy-seed cake, though, this afternoon.

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    2. Oh, and to make sure, ss you wrote "Just googled": You know that when clicking on the author's name (marked orange) you will find the wikipedia entry, don't you?

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    3. Yes, I can see you're very well organised.

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  3. Poetry, especially rhyming poetry, must be especially difficult to translate effectively, or, I may say...

    Must be hard
    to translate a Bard
    I may try
    before I die
    mais plus-tard...

    Not my finest lines, perhaps. Imagine trying to translate William Topaz McGonagall without erroneously adding improvements that would ruin it.

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    1. I mean his works of course
      not merely his name
      if misunderstood
      then I'm to blame

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    2. Don't misunderstand a bard
      who is avant garde
      of the new Perthean school
      that debunks any fool
      as what he is – a retard

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