Petits poemes en prosa

Remnants of the great extinct civilizations, the dandy, the stroller, the beggar or the draper, among many other marginal beings, are the corollary of the modern city. They wander the streets aimlessly, preferably at night, in search of everything that allows them to be free and enjoy happiness and the ideal. These prose poems -which were partially published under the title Le Spleen de Paris and are also indebted to Gaspar de la Nit, Aloysius Bertrand, and the great Edgar Allan Poe- are a clear testament to his immense ingenuity. of Baudelaire and evidence at the same time that life, yesterday as today, "is an anthill of innocent monsters."