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- catalog abstract "At the time of its release in 1860, Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises (Les Paradis Artificiels) met with immediate praise. One of the most important French symbolists, Baudelaire led a debauched, violent, and ultimately tragic life, dying an opium addict in 1867. This book, a response to Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, serves as a memoir of Baudelaire's last years. In this beautifully wrought portrait of the effects of wine, opium, and hashish on the mind, Baudelaire captures the dreamlike visions he experienced during his narcotic trances. These hallucinations, sometimes exquisite, sometimes disturbing, and the delusions of grandeur that often accompanied them, constitute the Paradis Artificiels, the gorgeous yet false worlds of ecstasy that eventually led to his ruin. Contrasting the effects of hashish and opium with those of wine, Baudelaire concludes that "wine exalts the will, hashish destroys it" and makes idlers of all those who use it.".
- catalog alternative "Paradis artificiels. English".
- catalog contributor b6928164.
- catalog contributor b6928165.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "At the time of its release in 1860, Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises (Les Paradis Artificiels) met with immediate praise. One of the most important French symbolists, Baudelaire led a debauched, violent, and ultimately tragic life, dying an opium addict in 1867. This book, a response to Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, serves as a memoir of Baudelaire's last years. In this beautifully wrought portrait of the effects of wine, opium, and hashish on the mind, Baudelaire captures the dreamlike visions he experienced during his narcotic trances. These hallucinations, sometimes exquisite, sometimes disturbing, and the delusions of grandeur that often accompanied them, constitute the Paradis Artificiels, the gorgeous yet false worlds of ecstasy that eventually led to his ruin. Contrasting the effects of hashish and opium with those of wine, Baudelaire concludes that "wine exalts the will, hashish destroys it" and makes idlers of all those who use it.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-164).".
- catalog description "On Wine and Hashish [1851] -- Artificial Paradises: Opium and Hashish.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 181 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Artificial paradises.".
- catalog identifier "0806514833 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Artificial paradises.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group,".
- catalog relation "Artificial paradises.".
- catalog subject "848/.807 20".
- catalog subject "Authors Drug use.".
- catalog subject "Drug addiction.".
- catalog subject "Hallucinogenic drugs Personal narratives.".
- catalog subject "Hallucinogenic drugs.".
- catalog subject "Hashish Personal narratives.".
- catalog subject "Hashish.".
- catalog subject "Opium Personal narratives.".
- catalog subject "PQ2191.P3 E58 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "On Wine and Hashish [1851] -- Artificial Paradises: Opium and Hashish.".
- catalog title "Artificial paradises / Charles Baudelaire ; translation, introduction, and notes by Stacy Diamond.".
- catalog title "Paradis artificiels. English".
- catalog type "Personal narratives. fast".
- catalog type "text".