HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 29, 1990 | Copyright information

NONFICTION

Baudelaire , by Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler (Viking, $24.95). At the time of his death in his mid-forties, Baudelaire was already a forgotten man. He had failed at nearly everything, spent much of his life groveling for handouts from his family, seen his work vilified and condemned as obscene, lost his lovers and his mind. But in the course of a generation, he was rediscovered, championed, eventually enshrined. Les Fleurs du Mal ("Flowers of Evil") is now viewed as the greatest book of French poetry in the 19th century; Baudelaire's art criticism remains the best of its time; ...

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