O Pintor da Vida moderna

De Charles Baudelaire, Jérôme Dufilho e Tomaz Tadeu

Charles Baudelaire publica, no final de 1863, no jornal Figaro, um ensaio que se tornaria referência canônica para a noção de modernidade em arte e literatura: "O Pintor da Vida moderna", no qual o poeta francês descreve e analisa a obra de um artista, Constantin Guys, que, para ele, captaria alguns dos aspectos definidores da vida moderna: a instantaneidade, o transitório, o fugidio, o contingente. Baudelaire aproxima, na sua curiosidade, na sua avidez pela vida, Constantin Guys, o "pintor da vida moderna", do personagem anônimo do conto "O homem da multidão", de Edgar Allan Poe.

O presente livro coloca, pela primeira vez, no Brasil, os textos de Baudelaire e de Poe, em nova tradução, ao lado das preciosas e deliciosas imagens de Constantin Guys. "O Pintor da Vida moderna" pode ser lido, assim, sob uma nova e fascinante perspectiva.

A presente edição é enriquecida, ainda, por um ensaio sobre as relações entre o pintor e o poeta, de autoria de Jérôme Dufilho, especialista francês da obra de Constantin Guys, que foi também o responsável pelo trabalho de reunião do inestimável material iconográfico que compõe o livro.

• Idioma: Português
• Editora: Autêntica Editora
• Data de lançamento: 25 de out. de 2018
• ISBN: 9788551301661

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet. Born in Paris, Baudelaire lost his father at a young age. Raised by his mother, he was sent to boarding school in Lyon and completed his education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he gained a reputation for frivolous spending and likely contracted several sexually transmitted diseases through his frequent contact with prostitutes. After journeying by sea to Calcutta, India at the behest of his stepfather, Baudelaire returned to Paris and began working on the lyric poems that would eventually become The Flowers of Evil (1857), his most famous work. Around this time, his family placed a hold on his inheritance, hoping to protect Baudelaire from his worst impulses. His mistress Jeanne Duval, a woman of mixed French and African ancestry, was rejected by the poet’s mother, likely leading to Baudelaire’s first known suicide attempt. During the Revolutions of 1848, Baudelaire worked as a journalist for a revolutionary newspaper, but soon abandoned his political interests to focus on his poetry and translations of the works of Thomas De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe. As an arts critic, he promoted the works of Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, composer Richard Wagner, poet Théophile Gautier, and painter Édouard Manet. Recognized for his pioneering philosophical and aesthetic views, Baudelaire has earned praise from such artists as Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and T. S. Eliot. An embittered recorder of modern decay, Baudelaire was an essential force in revolutionizing poetry, shaping the outlook that would drive the next generation of artists away from Romanticism towards Symbolism, and beyond. Paris Spleen (1869), a posthumous collection of prose poems, is considered one of the nineteenth century’s greatest works of literature.