“Le Guignon”, by Charles Baudelaire: the Close Form of the Poem

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-6385.145156

Abstract

In this article, recovering the term “close style”, used by Baudelaire in a text about Poe, and inspired by the method of Arrigucci Jr., in the essay Coração Partido, we propose a reading of the sonnet “Le Guignon”. Using Schlegel, Bourdieu, Bénichou and Auerbach, we also intend to demonstrate to what extent Baudelaire, as a poet, is situated at a high point of romantic formal irony; and as a critic and essayist, he shows himself to be a defender of the autonomy of literature from a priori social discourses. The hypothesis put forward is that, in the sonnet, a device of meaning inherent in the signifying units is constructed, through spatial and acoustic images of an extractive operation.

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Author Biography

Júnior Vilarino, Universidade Federal de Viçosa

Professor Associado de Língua e Literatura Francesa da Universidade Federal de Viçosa, doutor pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. E-mail: jrvilarino@ufv.br; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-1179.

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2025-06-07

How to Cite

VILARINO, Júnior. “Le Guignon”, by Charles Baudelaire: the Close Form of the Poem. Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 68, p. 81–107, 2025. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.145156. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/145156. Acesso em: 22 aug. 2026.

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Artigos de estudos literários