Escritos sobre arte, literatura y música

Untimely, cursed and anti-modern author, even before the publication of The Flowers of Evil Baudelaire had already made a name for himself among his contemporaries as a perceptive and fearsome critic. His interests covered all artistic manifestations, from music to aesthetics, passing through literature, art and translation. This volume brings together for the first time in Spanish all of his writings on aesthetics, which includes not only representative works such as those dedicated to the Salons of 1845 and 1846 and The Painter of Modern Life, but also the articles published in the French press. , the prologues to Poe's translations or the study he devoted to Wagner's work. All of them illustrate his artistic, literary and musical thought, and the exercise of criticism as a subjective and vehement task, destined to propose well-founded and singular perspectives. The texts that we are presenting today traced the road map of modernity and recover for the contemporary reader a current conception of the aesthetic phenomenon that transcends the confines of the arts to fully open up to the new.