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Two-thirds of Les Paradis artificiels consist of a translation from De Quincey’s Confessions.1 It is the degree of freedom which Baudelaire manifests towards the original which, combined with the more open and decisive attitudes of the section on hashish, gives us insights into his moral values.
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Jouve, N.W. (1980). Baudelaire and Translation. In: Baudelaire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16281-9_12
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