Foreign thinker
Charles Baudelaire
Charles BaudelairePoetry, Literary Criticism, Art Criticism, AestheticsFrench
One must never forget that beauty is always strange.
Life and Thought
Charles Baudelaire was a prominent 19th-century French poet, art critic, and translator, considered a pioneer of modern poetry and the Symbolist movement. His masterpiece, the poetry collection *Les Fleurs du mal* (The Flowers of Evil), created a fundamental transformation in the concept of beauty, modernity, and the understanding of decadence in world literature.
