42 flores de mal es un volumen de la colección «Poesía portátil» que reúne algunos de los versos más distintivos de los célebres poemarios de Baudelaire Las flores del mal, El spleen de París y Los paraísos artificiales. 42 poemas que abren las puertas al universo descarnado del poeta maldito por excelencia. Con una influencia incontestable sobre escritores modernos y contemporáneos, el impacto de la obra de Baudelaire es evidente en autores como Proust, Houellebecq y tantos otros que respiraron el desarraigo y la sordidez que emanan sus versos. Baudelaire había despertado del sueño romántico y se sumergió en la metrópoli, fue un poeta solitario entre multitudes que se confesaba un «yo sediento del no-yo», un navegante en un universo vacío y a la vez rebosante de las más bajas pasiones. Su lenguaje, valiente y descarado, es un ensayo constante de todas las posibilidades expresivas del verso y la prosa.
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du Mal; (1857; The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; "Little Prose Poems") was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time. Known for his highly controversial, and often dark poetry, as well as his translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire's life was filled with drama and strife, from financial disaster to being prosecuted for obscenity and blasphemy. Long after his death many look upon his name as representing depravity and vice. Others see him as being the poet of modern civilization, seeming to speak directly to the 20th century.
