Michel Butor - Histoire Extraordinaire: Essays on a Dream of Baudelaire's

The distinguished novelist and essayist Michel Butor has written one of the most remarkable critical studies of recent years. In Histoire Extraodinaire he discusses the three stages in the life of Charles Baudelaire and relates them to his three important works and the three major factors in his inspiration: Les Lesbiennes and his mistress Jeanne Duval; Les Limbes and the revolutionaries of 1848; and finally, Les Fleurs du Mal and Edgar Allan Poe. Gradually Butor's 'spiralling' technique reveals the links between poetry and sexuality, poetry and revolition, and poetry and suicide in the work of Baudelaire.

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd. in 1969

Softcover with dust jacket, 172 pages

Size: 4.25 x 7 inches

Condition: Very good. Light wear to dust jacket, clean bright interior except for a small "1.13" written in red pen on the inside cover.