Abstract
The aim of this article is to study the work The Spleen of Paris, published posthumously in 1869, from the correspondence of Charles Baudelaire, considering a temporal cut that begins around 1857, year that marks the appearance of the first references, in the scope of the correspondence, to a project of book of poems in prose. We begin the reflection on the epistolary genre (MORAES, 2009; SANTIAGO, 2002) and on the specificities of Baudelaire's correspondence (PICHOIS, 1973), and then analyze its numerous comments (COMPAGNON, 2014, GUYAUX, 2014) on The Spleen of Paris. In short, the reading of these letters is imperative for a researcher of the poet of Flowers of evil.
Keywords
Baudelaire; Correspondence; Spleen of Paris