Summer with Baudler

Literature historian Antoine Companion tried to capture the kaleidoscopic universe of the personality and poetic imagination of Baudelaire in a series of "instant pictures" from different sides. The heads of this book, originally presented in the form of short performances on the radio France, show the poet of modern life as a dandy, socialist, Catholic, connoisseur of painting and photographs, get him in the company of friends, prominent contemporaries and mistresses, and, of course , in front of the mirror and sheet of paper.
The verses of Charles Baudler, united in the collection "Flowers of Evil", challenged the literature and readership of their time with uncompromising individualism, acute attention to the "litter" of urban everyday life and chaos of mental impulses that trample all sorts of norms. The poet, who in every possible way achieved official recognition and did not at all seek to be known as a revolutionary, by the will of history became the inventor of modernism, the author of the very concept of modernity, which formed the basis of the worldview and culture of the 20th century