This handsome bilingual (French/English) gift edition pairs Charles Baudelaire's classic "Invitation to the Voyage"--the best-known poem from The Flowers of Evil--with a score of moody, atmospheric 19th-century photos. 20 duotone illustrations.
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Text: English, French (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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Invitation to the Voyage,
By Max "davidinscarboro@aol.com" (Scarborough, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: L'Invitation Au Voyage/Invitation to the Voyage: A Poem from the Flowers of Evil (Hardcover)
The translation here strays a bit from the original for the sake of making it rhyme. Although this may raise the eyebrows of some purists, I feel that the english version has charms of its own. The design of this book is really outstanding, and the old duo-tone photographs used to illustrate it are quite poetic in their own right, and seem even more so as a result of the way they are combined with the text. The book as a whole evokes images of a lost paradise, which I have never seen expressed so well outside of the writings of Proust. I even like the way it smells! This would make an excellent gift for any lover of poetry or photography.
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Beautiful book!,
By Nate Johnson (TALLAHASSEE, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: L'Invitation Au Voyage/Invitation to the Voyage: A Poem from the Flowers of Evil (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful artist's book that would be a nice gift for someone who loves books, photography and/or poetry.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant!,
This review is from: L'Invitation Au Voyage/Invitation to the Voyage: A Poem from the Flowers of Evil (Hardcover)
This book is not only gorgeous to browse through yet exceptionally poetic and useful at the same time. It is a bilingual book- french and english with absolutely fabulous illustrations to aid the imagination. Sucha lovely work and an intriguing way to involve both adults and children into Baudelaire's complex poetry. Well done!
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