The article deals with the main features of poetics and aesthetics of Ch. Baudelaire's work, entering into communication with modern postmodernist writers through the centuries. These principles of cultural dialogue, poetics and aesthetics include dualism, supernaturalism, the principle of playing with the reader, escapism to the imaginary country of Icaria, oneiric and thanatological motifs, the peculiar chronotope of the city. The worldview principles of the work include romantic pessimism, sleepwalking, dandyism and escapism. Contemporary French postmodernist writers B. Werber and F. Beigbeder are followers of the poetic heritage of Charles Baudelaire. In his novels one can find quotations from Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, the author enters into a communicative dialogue with the French poet, some fragments of them even serve as epigraphs to his works. Werber's novel "The Sixth Dream" also contains direct references to the poetry of Baudelaire. In B. Werber's Thanatonauts presents the themes of death, sleep and escapism in the compositional form of the journeys of the Thanatonaut scientists into the "space" of death. The theory of supernaturalism is embodied in the cycles of novels "About Angels" and "About the Gods", where the man appears as a decider of the fate of planets with an alternate reality. His colourful postmodern neo-mythological novels weave together different forms of art: painting, architecture and music. In the works of F. Beigbeder widely represented the image of modern cynical urban dandy. The protagonist of his novels "99 Francs" and "Ideal", "The Man Who Cried Laughing", "Stories on Ecstasy" is a product of a consumer society era of postmodernism. He is carefree, cruel and amoral. His craving for escapism into a dream world is expressed in his infatuation with illegal substances. The work of Werber and Beigbeder encapsulates the dualistic principle of Baudelaire, Werber's characters strive for spiritual perfection, while Beigbeder's characters engage in carnal pleasures and self-destruction. Werber and Beigbeder are the successors and heirs of Baudelaire's poetics, expressed in sensual aestheticism, numerous allusions, eclecticism, supernaturalism, an interest in the afterlife and the poetics of sleep.
aesthetics, poetics, postmodernism, Werber, Baudelaire, Beigbeder, communicative dialogue
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