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In search of Jeanne Duval: The Baudelaire Fractal, by Lisa Robertson, reviewed

The painted-over figure of Baudelaire’s muse eventually emerging from Courbet’s great canvas provides one of many haunting images in this complex novel

Detail of Gustave Courbet’s ‘The Artist’s Studio’ showing Charles Baudelaire reading and ghostly figure of Jeanne Duval to the left of his head. [Getty Images] 
issue 19 August 2023
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  • The Baudelaire Fractal

    Lisa Robertson

    Peninsula Press, pp. 160, £10

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