{"id":218,"date":"2022-04-24T20:10:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2022-04-24T20:10:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:10:45","slug":"la-folie-baudelaire-by-calasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/quotes\/la-folie-baudelaire-by-calasso\/","title":{"rendered":"La Folie Baudelaire by Calasso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"633\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-633x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-633x1024.jpg 633w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-186x300.jpg 186w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-768x1241.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-950x1536.jpg 950w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-1267x2048.jpg 1267w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-1200x1940.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/au-rebours01-scaled.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Art by Arthur Zaidenberg from A Rebours by Huysmans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p>\u2018All in all,\u2019 Sainte-Beuve continues, \u2018M. Baudelaire has found a way to construct, at the extremities of a strip of land held to be uninhabitable and beyond the confines of known Romanticism, a bizarre pavilion, a folly, highly decorated, highly tormented, but graceful and mysterious, where people read the books of Edgar Allan Poe, where they recite exquisite sonnets, intoxicate themselves with hashish to ponder about it afterward, where they take opium and thousands of other abominable drugs in cups of the finest porcelain. This singular folly, with its marquetry inlays, of a planned and composite originality, which for some time has drawn the eye toward the extreme point of the Romantic Kamchatka, I call Baudelaire\u2019s folly. The author is content to have done something impossible, in a place where it was thought that no one could go.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018All in all,\u2019 Sainte-Beuve continues, \u2018M. Baudelaire has found a way to construct, at the extremities of a strip of land held to be uninhabitable and beyond the confines of known Romanticism, a bizarre pavilion, a folly, highly decorated, highly tormented, but graceful and mysterious, where people read the books of Edgar Allan Poe, where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/quotes\/la-folie-baudelaire-by-calasso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;La Folie Baudelaire by Calasso&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[101,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}