Abstract
In the work of Charles Baudelaire, the relation between the poet and his public tends to be marked by violence, hostility or mismatch. The dialogical trait, fundamental to the poetics of the author, is openly addressed in the prose poem "Le Chien et le Flacon", in which the approach to the reader is permeated by aggression, irony and coated with ambiguities. By the study of certain aspects of this prose poem, along with the commentary of other texts from the author, this work aims to show how the hostility between the poet and his public, crossed by the violence also addressed to himself and the production of his work, seems to create ambivalences that would be the groundwork of a baudelairian poetics of contradiction. Besides promoting the indetermination of the senses, this artifice would be capable of creating critical hues directed not only to the relations between the artist, the public and his composition, but also aimed to the manner lyric itself is conceived.
Keywords
Charles Baudelaire; prose poem; violence; reader