Lo cómico y la caricatura y el pintor de la vida moderna

Por Charles Baudelaire

Reunimos en este volumen los textos en los que Charles Baudelaire se ocupa de la esencia de la risa y la caricatura junto con "El pintor de la vida moderna". Diferentes y publicados en fechas distintas –en los años cincuenta del siglo XIX los primeros, en 1863 "El pintor de la vida moderna"–, guardan una estrecha relación en la caracterización del mundo moderno que realiza el poeta. Daumier, Grandville, Gavarni son "pintores" de la vida moderna en tanta o mayor medida que Constantin Guys, y la articulación de horror y belleza, la presencia de la belleza en la fealdad, la temporalidad de lo transitorio son rasgos tan adecuados para un pintor de "croquis de costumbres" como de los caricaturistas, que hacen uso de estos motivos de forma muchas veces más radical que los pintores de género.

Textos diversos, ponen de relieve en su lectura conjunta la índole del pensamiento de Baudelaire en toda su complejidad y evitan la comprensión reductora a la que en muchos casos han sido sometidos. Si "El pintor de la vida moderna" descubre la belleza fugitiva en el pintoresquismo de la vida cotidiana, son las incidencias de esta vida cotidiana las que protagonizan las caricaturas, la sátira y lo grotesco, motivos que Baudelaire analiza en profundidad al escribir sobre la esencia de la risa.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Antonio Machado Libros
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 30 nov 2017
• ISBN: 9788491141556

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet. Born in Paris, Baudelaire lost his father at a young age. Raised by his mother, he was sent to boarding school in Lyon and completed his education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he gained a reputation for frivolous spending and likely contracted several sexually transmitted diseases through his frequent contact with prostitutes. After journeying by sea to Calcutta, India at the behest of his stepfather, Baudelaire returned to Paris and began working on the lyric poems that would eventually become The Flowers of Evil (1857), his most famous work. Around this time, his family placed a hold on his inheritance, hoping to protect Baudelaire from his worst impulses. His mistress Jeanne Duval, a woman of mixed French and African ancestry, was rejected by the poet’s mother, likely leading to Baudelaire’s first known suicide attempt. During the Revolutions of 1848, Baudelaire worked as a journalist for a revolutionary newspaper, but soon abandoned his political interests to focus on his poetry and translations of the works of Thomas De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe. As an arts critic, he promoted the works of Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, composer Richard Wagner, poet Théophile Gautier, and painter Édouard Manet. Recognized for his pioneering philosophical and aesthetic views, Baudelaire has earned praise from such artists as Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and T. S. Eliot. An embittered recorder of modern decay, Baudelaire was an essential force in revolutionizing poetry, shaping the outlook that would drive the next generation of artists away from Romanticism towards Symbolism, and beyond. Paris Spleen (1869), a posthumous collection of prose poems, is considered one of the nineteenth century’s greatest works of literature.

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[José Treviño · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Excelente ensayo que ayuda a comprender la modernidad y a los estudiosos de apreciación de las artes.