The most beautiful flowers grow in the swamp of lust, brothels, and human pain. Hymns to Satan give birth to the "religion" of the new age. Lesbian passion breathes in the verses of the 19th century.

Charles Baudelaire: the prototype of the cursed poets; after him, nothing in modern art and thought will be the same. Since then, bohemians and marginalized individuals are "baptized" in his hell.

In this edition, you will find all the Flowers of Evil, in their original form and in translation by George Kentrotis, along with all the important information about Baudelaire's life, the scandal caused by the publication of The Flowers of Evil with the ban on "immoral" poems, his conflict with the prevailing puritanism of the time, and consequently, the birth of the modern world.

Finally, all significant poets, artists, philosophers, and writers who either stood on his work or were influenced by it are presented: Benjamin and Adorno, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Valéry, Eliot, Brecht, Proust, Apollinaire, and all the surrealists up to René Char, Manet, and all the Impressionist painters, Cavafy, Kariotakis, Kavvadias, and a plethora of poets from the interwar period.