Download or read book Baudelaire: Critical Study written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. He turned abstractions like Existence and Being, Freedom and Nature, into a theory of psychoanalysis, grounded in man's creativity and opposed to Freudian determinism. Then he put the theory into practice in this book on Baudelaire.