''La Fanfarlo'' is a work by French poet
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fr ...
, first published in January 1847.
The
novella
A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) fact ...
describes a fictionalised account of the writer's love affair with a dancer,
Jeanne Duval.
Irish
literary critic
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. ...
Enid Starkie
Enid Mary Starkie CBE (18 August 1897 – 21 April 1970), was an Irish literary critic, known for her biographical works on French poets. She was a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and Lecturer and then Reader in the University.
Early life ...
, known for her biographical works on French poets, said about ''La Fanfarlo'':
References
External links
''La Fanfarlo'': full online readable and downloadable text.
Charles Baudelaire€”Largest site dedicated to Baudelaire's poems and prose, containing ''Fleurs du mal'', ''Petit poemes et prose'', ''Fanfarlo'' and more in French.
1847 French novels
Works by Charles Baudelaire
French novellas
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