A whole series of concepts and images of the outstanding German critic of the 20th century W. Benjamin (1892–1940), reflecting on literature and history, pol...

There is the Paris of Balzac, Hemingway and Henry Miller... Baudelaire's Paris is mysterious and gloomy, half-real and half-mystical, in the unsteady outline...

Category “From a future book.” We are talking about a “French sonnet from the 16th to 19th centuries.” translated by Roman Dubrovkin. “In his translations,” ...

Thirteen prose poems from Charles Baudelaire’s book “The Parisian Spleen, or Little Poems in Prose” translated by Vl. Khodasevich.

The incomparable Dracula instilled in the reading public a taste for vampirism. Many are no longer able to cope without regular infusions of fresh blood, obt...

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) is the greatest French poet, the author of “The Flowers of Evil”, enfant terrible, the man who drew a line under the Enlighten...

In the “Literary Heritage” section there is an enthusiastic article by the very young Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) “Charles Baudelaire” translated from French b...