El presente. Fascinación y decepción en la escritura ensayística de Baudelaire

Abstract

The present work proposes a reading of Baudelaire's aesthetics from three figures that make up a fantasmatic of the writing subject: the fascination, the expectation and the disappointment before "the new". Through them, evident in the essays, the prose and poetry of Baudelaire, as well as in his biographical figurations, his records of the present and his veneration of tradition, is that the images, the cult of analogy and melancholy before the distinction of that object that disappears, they allow to recognize a definition of "the modern" that is not more than the inebriation of the interpretation. In this way, the Baudelairean aesthetic could be understood as a vitality that is consumed, an affirmation that in itself carries its principle of negation, an orientation that at once fascinates and disappoints, but that inevitably leads to the silence of ruin as metaphysical figure in the present.