Hashish, Wine, Opium: Charles Baudelaire & Théophile Gautier - Softcover

Baudelaire, Charles; Gautier, Théophile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847492878 ISBN 13: 9781847492876

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Among the earliest artistic accounts of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium. As well as providing an absorbing of nineteenth-century drug use, Hashish, Wine, Opium captures the spirit of French Romanticism, in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following centuries.

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Review:

Reveals to us enchanting and visionary landscapes, and beguiles us with vegetable correspondences, musical transformations and watery expanses. --Margaret Drabble

About the Author:

Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations and prose poems have been equally influential.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847492878
• ISBN 13: 9781847492876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128