by Charles Baudelaire · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723325348
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«Os Paraísos Artificiais» is an essay by Charles Baudelaire published by Editorial Estampa in paperback (168 pages, in Portuguese).
Charles Baudelaire examines the effects of wine, opium and hashish on the mind based on his own experiences. He describes dreamlike visions, hallucinations and delusions of grandeur that accompany ecstasy, and argues that these artificial paradises, however attractive they may seem, end up being a deception that leads to ruin.
The original work, «Les Paradis artificiels», appeared in 1860; this Portuguese edition was published in 2010 with a translation by José Saramago.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and philosophical reflections on consciousness and psychoactive substances.
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
