On Wine and Hashish by Charles Baudelaire (Hesperus Classics)
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Overview: Published in a new translation, and for the first time in a single-volume edition, On Wine and Hashish collects Baudelaire’s notions of the artificial paradises available to all drinkers and drug takers. In equal parts a celebration of the human capacity to escape the immediacy of the world as it is, and a warning against indulging the escapist impulse, On Wine and Hashish draws on its author’s experiences as a member of the famous ‘Club des hachichins’ in Paris. It elaborates themes raised in his famous prose poem collection, Le Spleen de Paris, in which drunkenness – as provided by wine, poetry, or virtue – is celebrated in remarkable style. Baudelaire claims that wine and hashish bring about a flight away from narrative time, initiating a relationship with the unknown: the ambivalence of memory, and a dangerous timelessness.
Inebriating in its anecdotal detail and thought-provoking in its depiction of the phoney exotica of excess, On Wine and Hashish illuminates Baudelaire’s own uncertain attitude to addiction.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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