Dandy

a creation of nineteenth-century metropolis

Abstract

The poet of The Flowers of Evil sought to understand the time in which he lived, called things by the name of things, stripped them. To better translate the spirit of his time, Baudelaire assumed for himself the responsibility of living this time fully, even if it was necessary to risk depersonalization. Each character, dandy or flâneur - emblematic figures of the time of the French poet he placed on his body and soul - are key elements in order to unveil Paris, the symbolic city of the 19th century. In characters such as the trapper, the bohemian, the dandy and the flâneur, the poet sought to unveil the city’s masks. This means that in this work we try to think of the dandy and flaneur figures as characters who revealed the French capital. Emblematic characters of a time - the nineteenth century - and as such will have to be shown from within. And thus, through them, we approach spatially and temporally the man and the poet Charles Baudelaire.