Charles Baudelaire: Le Spleen de Paris, illustrated by Marlene Dumas presents the artist’s paintings and drawings for the 20 prose poems in which Baudelaire, the poet of the Spleen, a kind of melancholy, paints the portraits of grieving widows, rejected lovers, and people who fight against the dark around them and within themselves. Dumas was inspired by the atmosphere of the text and the specific timbre of Hafid Bouazza, who translated the 50 prose poems collected by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) in Le Spleen de Paris.