The Arcades Project - Operi

"Madame Bovary, in what is most forceful, most ambitious, and also most contemplative
in her nature, has remained a man. Just as Pallas Athena sprang fully
armed from the head of Zeus, so this strange androgynous creature has kept all the
attraction of a virile soul in a charming feminine body." Further along, on
Flaubert: "!.All intellectual women will be grateful to him for having raised the
female to so high a level . .. and for having made her share in that combination of
calculation and reverie which constitutes the perfect being." Baudelaire, L 'Art
romantique, pp. 415, 419." [JS,4]
"'Hysteria! Why couldn't this physiological mystery be made the sum and substance
of a literary work-this mystery which the Academie de Medecine has not
yet solved and which, manifesting itself in women by the sensation of a lump in the
throat that seems to rise . .. , shows itself in excitable men by every kind of impotence
as well as hy a tendency toward every kind of excess." Baudelaire, I.J 'Art
"omantique (Paris), p. 418 ("Madame Bovary"}.34 [JS,S]
From "'Pierre Dupont": ""Whatever the party to which one belongs, . .. it is impossible
not to be moved by tbe sight of that sickly throng breathing the dust of the
workshops, ... sleeping among vermin ... -that sighing and languishing throng
... which looks long and sadly at the sunshine and shadows of the great parks."
Baudelaire, L'Art romantique (Paris), pp. 198-199.35 [JSa,!]
From '''Pierre Dupont": "By excluding morality, and often even passion, the puerile
Utopia of the school of art fo r art s sake was inevitably sterile . ... When there
appeared a poet, awkward at times, hut almost always great, who proclaimed in
impassioned language the sacredness of the Revolution of 1830 and sang of the
destitution of England and Ireland, despite his defective rhymes, despite his pleonasms,
. .. the question was settled, and art was thereafter inseparahle from morality
and utility."' Baudelaire, L'Art romantique (Paris), p. 193.:)6 The passage
refers to Barbier. [J5a,2]
" The optimism of Dupont, his unlimited trust in the natural goodness of man, his
fanatical love of nature constitute the greatest share of his talent." Baudelaire,
L'Art romantique (Paris), p. 201." [JSa,3]
"1 was not at all surprised to find ... in Tannhiiuser, Lohengrin, and The Flying
Dutchman, an excellent method of construction, a spirit of order and division that
recalls the architecture of ancient tragedies." Baudelaire, L 'Art romantique
(Paris), p. 225 ("Richard Wagner et Tannhiillser" ).3B [J5a,4]
""If, in his choice of subjects and in his dramatic method, Wagner resembles antiquity,
by the passionate energy of his expression he is today the truest representative
of modern nature." Baudelaire, L 'Art romantiqu.e (Paris), p. 250. :J