Keywords
Subjectivity
Transcendence
Paris Spleen
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Abstract
This article reveals, through detailed analysis of the final version of the prose poem “Crépuscule du soir” by Charles Baudelaire, that the force of the poem resides in the fact that it depends on a model of poetry that reduces it to the level of the commodity at the same time that it transcends that very model. “Le Crépuscule du soir” constructs a dissonant poetry not in order to entirely reject the poetic enterprise but to reveal in it a potential that had always been present but hidden in the poetry of the generations before Baudelaire.
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