Impertinence and crisis of the lyrical subject in the last Baudelaire

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on Charles Baudelaire’s impertinence and its poetic implications, focusing, in particular, on the late production of the poet. Crossing important themes of Baudelaire’s work such as controversy, loneliness, the desire for distinction, I try to relate impertinence to the crisis of the lyrical subject and the constitution of an imposter poet, especially in the author’s prose poems.