Charles Baudelaire : intimité, modernité, identité
Charles Baudelaire: intimity, modernity, identity

Summary/Abstract: Both a child of the century and a harsh critic of his time, Charles Baudelaire remained deeply marked by his « tyranny of intimacy » (Richard Sennett’s expression), and in a way contributed himself to its expansion, but at the same time kept a distance from the culture of intimacy that took hold with the advent of Romanticism. In our paper, we shall try to grasp the link between intimacy and modernity, to see how the tension between the two constructs both individual and collective identity. We will examine the poetùs letters, diaries and poems, both prose and verse, including two « intimate » poems from The Flowers of Evil.

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