{"product_id":"paris-spleen","title":"Paris Spleen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParis Spleen is one of the first modern books--formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and relentlessly urban. Written in the 1850s, these fifty prose poems roam through the streets of Paris with unsparing detail and a deeply ambivalent gaze. Baudelaire captures daily life as something both intoxicating and absurd, filled with strange encounters, sudden violence, fleeting beauty, and constant noise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not poetry in the usual sense, but something sharper and more elastic: compact narratives, snapshots, observations, and provocations.Baudelaire moves quickly between tones--satirical, melancholic, brutal, philosophical--without ever losing control. Paris Spleen speaks in the voice of a man both of the city and estranged from it, and it remains one of the most influential works of the 19th century: vivid, darkly comic, and permanently contemporary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51927596106059,"sku":"R1264-0633","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/41YbYtWPStL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1748526251","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/paris-spleen","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}