By a movement wich is diffracted in some poems of Les Fleurs du Mal and the Poèmes en prose, in his Journaux intimes, when he thinks about the end of the world in the forms of the vision of a plutolatre global capitalism, Baudelaire ("moi qui sens quelquefois en moi le ridicule d’un prophète", he says, provokingly, in Fusées), poses as an inspired prophet and suggests a deconstruction of the figure of the poet-prophet so cherished by the Romantics.
Baudelaire; revelation; deconstruction