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Les Fleurs du mal

Henri Dutilleux's Tout un monde lointain... for cello and orchestra (1970) is strongly influenced by Les Fleurs du Mal.


Apollonie Sabatier

Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier and some others have written articles about her and she was one of four women (Caroline, Jeanne Duval, herself and Marie Daubrun) who inspired Charles Baudelaire's famous work Les Fleurs du Mal.

Giovanni Raboni

Raboni became was appreciated as both a literary critic and a translator of classic works: he translated in Italian some works by Gustave Flaubert, and by Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire for Einaudi publishing house, Jean Racine and Proust's In Search of Lost Time in Mondadori's "I Meridiani" collection.

Jacques Zwobada

He also illustrated the work of Baudelaire in a series of twenty-five lithographs for Les fleurs du mal, as well as ten drawings for Stéphane Mallarmé's poem L'après-midi d'un faune.

Pascal Obispo

With his 2007 release of Les Fleurs du Bien (a play on Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal) he makes allusions to Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso and others.

Roadmarks

"Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire and "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman appear as cybernetic extensions of themselves, owned by the protagonist and referred to as "Flowers" and "Leaves" respectively.


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