The imago image of ‘flowers of evil’: from Charles Baudelaire to Joris-Karl Huysmans
... Huysmans in a series of vegetative appearances, such as the collection of exotic plants, the lotus in the hands of Salome and the nidularium seen in a dream. It is concluded that Huysmans uses phytonymic images to demonstrate his belief that his decadent contemporaries, personified in the character of Jean Desessent, perceive Baudelaire's work superficially, inaccurately and too literally, making them accomplices in the 'burial' of everything associated with 'old' values. Therefore, as a ...
