Les Paradis artificiels
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Infobox book Les Paradis Artificiels (English: Artificial Paradises) is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish. Baudelaire describes the effects of the drugs and discusses the way in which they could theoretically aid mankind in reaching an "ideal" world. The text was influenced by Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria de Profundis.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Baudelaire analyzes the motivation of the addict, and the individual psychedelic experience of the user. His descriptions have foreshadowed other such work that emerged later in the 1960s regarding LSD.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
See also
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1821)
- The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1857)
- List of books about cannabis
References
External links
- Les Paradis artificiels—Full online downloadable text.