<b>A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of history's most celebrated writers.</b><br>  <br> Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, <i>The Flowers of Evil</i>, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: <i>La Fanfarlo</i>. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair the poet had with Jean Duval, a dancer whose beauty and sexuality Baudelaire came to obsess over. The outcome is a work of raw emotional power and a clear distillation of the Parisian's poetic genius. As Baudelaire himself said, “Always be a poet, even in prose.”