The Baudelaire Fractal

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The best reviewer of this work is by Charles Baudelaire, the poet mentioned in its title. In the preface to his Paris Spleen or “Petits Poèmes en prose” addressed to Arsene Houssaye he says the following: “I send you a little work of which no one can say, without doing it an injustice, that it has ne......more

There is a formal and tonal synesthesia inflecting Baudelaire’s spiralling poetic line. The poems trace a turbulence that continued outwards, fractal, from the complex curvature of compositional time — a table in a room by a river — towards future contacts, future refrains, in infinitely producti......more

Best book I've read so far this year. A remarkable, lyrical, poetic, intellectual first novel set in Paris, the declaration of a woman who really claims the first person. Who builds the world through her own sensibility. Who claims not to be Charles Baudelaire, but to have written his works. It was......more

I was sitting alone in my den, resting my bean on the desk, when Jeeves shimmered in with a much needed restorer on a tray. "Jeeves!" I said. "I bet you are clair... clair... well, whatever you say about birds who can guess what other chaps need! How did you know that I needed a drink?" "It seemed ind......more