One of Baudelaire’s well-known portraits by Nadar, who grasps him with the half-closed eyes, on the point of falling asleep, invites to think about the poet’s relationship with the sleepy world, and with the tradition of the poetic invocations to sleep. Nervalien passage to a second existence, the sleep opens the way both to the most frightening fantasies of an hallucinatory state and to the chance of an absolute oblivion, where the time and the space are suspended, where Hypnos and Thanatos get mixed up.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques