Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, the fifth in a sequence on modern western world literature, concerns Charles Baudelaire’s proto-modernist prose manifesto “The Painter of Modern Life” and scandalous poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal. No preview, no summary: this is a forbidden, evil, literally sick episode. Please like, share, comment, and subscribe! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:
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