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Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil

Sacred and Profane Love

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The Existential Leap in Baudelaire

Baudelaire is the bard of fallen nature, writes Indian. He dresses it in Satanism but can't find a way to escape his life's "desire for transcendence," he says. Baudelaire and Camus are both dealing with this problem: how do you find meaning? The Catholic church has turned away from its own sense of God, argues Indian.

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