Baudelaire by Jean-Paul Sartre

Beautiful copy of a New Directions Paperback of Baudelaire by Jean-Paul Sartre, featuring cover art by Matisse. Sartre's study of Baudelaire was considered one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism upon its publication. 

'We may often disagree with his interpretations of the poet's personality, but we cannot fail to wonder at the mastery with which he presents his case. It is the case, quite patently, of an Existentialist who wishes to psychoanalyse a paramount literary figure in terms of his own beliefs.'

New Directions, was and  is a publishing house with similar roots as Grove Press. An independent book publishers who were established in 1939 and based out of New York City. Started by James Laughlin after he was advised by Ezra Pound to "do something useful". 

Paperback

A New Directions Paperback

First Published, 1967

Twelfth Printing