The Arcades Project - Operi

""Baudelaire does not give us a lifelike representation of objects; he is more concerned
to steep the image in memory than to embellish or portray it." Paul Desjardins,
""Charles Baudelaire," Revue bleue (Paris, 1887), p. 23. [J42a,6]
Souday tries to dismiss the Christian velleities of Baudelaire with a reference to
Pascal. [J42a,7]
Kafka says: dependency keeps you young. [J42a,8]
'''TIns sensation is then renewed ad infinitum through astonishment. . All of a
sudden, Baudelaire draws hack from what is most familiar to him and eyes it in
horror . ... He draws baclc from himself; he looks upon himself as something quite
new and prodigiously interesting, although a little unclean: 'Lord give me strength
and courage to behold I My body and my heart without disgust!"'20U Paul Desjardins,
""Charles Baudelaire," Revue bl.eue (Paris, 1887), p. 18. [J42a)9]
Baudelaire's fatalism: "At the time of the coup d'etat in December, he felt a sense
of outrage. 'What a disgrace!' he cried at first; then he came to see things 'from a
providential perspective' and resigned himself like a monk." Desjardins, "Charles
Baudelaire;' Revue bleue (1887) , p. 19. [J42a,IO]
Baudelaire-according to Desjardins-unites the sensibility of the Marquis de
Sade with the doctrines ofJansenius. [J43,1]
""True civilization . .. has nothing to do with . .. table-turning"2()t)-an allusion to
Hugo. [J43,2]
""Que diras-tu ce soil' ... "