Hashish, Wine, Opium

Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier’s and Baudelaire’s own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium.
As well as providing an absorbing account of nineteenth-century drug use, Hashish, Wine, Opium captures the spirit of French Romanticism in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following century.

Author	Charles Baudelaire & Theophile Gautier
Format	Ebook
ISBN	9781847492876
Language	English
Pages	86
Publication Date	03-13-2012
Publisher	Alma Classics

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