Used book – The Last Days of Charles Baudelaire: A Novel, Bernard-Henri Lévy

We discover a Baudelaire who is both unexpected and plausible, who desired glory and honors, who denied himself, debased himself, compromised himself - in vain - to obtain them, who was misunderstood and rejected by everyone - Gautier, Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, and even Delacroix - who feels his life is ending when he is only at the beginning of his work, who lived and will die on a huge misunderstanding. Speaking of misunderstanding, if you hear that this book is uninteresting, be sure that you are dealing with malicious or uncultured people (the combination of the two is not excluded) Josyane Savigneau Le Monde. A brilliant patchwork of biography, psychology, morality, and reverie. We cannot recommend enough that you travel to Brussels to the bedside of the greatest French poet. (Jean François Josselin Le Nouvel Observateur) The poet's long agony seems here to be strangely in keeping with his short life, in this suddenly fragmented time, this "dead time" which is, at once, that of truth and of questioning. A admirable subject of prodigious grasp of the elusive on the part of Bernard Henry Lévy, who, far from all didacticism, even further from all anecdotal complacency, leads us into the secret part of a man of genius, into the painful path of creation. André Brincourt Le Figaro Littéraire.