The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel. "Robertson, with feminist wit, a dash of kink, and a generous brain, has written an urtext that tenders there can be, in fact, or in fiction, no such thing. Hers is a boon for readers and writers, now and in the future."—Jennifer Krasinski, Bookforum "It’s brilliant, strange, and unlike anything I’ve read before."—Rebecca Hussey, BOOKRIOT

ボドレールの全著作を自分が書いたと気づく――。この奇抜な設定は、自己と創造性の境界を揺るがす詩的な企てです。リサ・ロバートソンは十九世紀の絵画や服飾の記憶を織り込み、女性詩人の身体性をもって歴史的な「天才」を再構築しました。これは既存の知の体系に自らの実存を刻み込む、静謐かつ過激な精神の闘争です。 「女性の遊歩者」という生き様を通じ、本作はフェミニズム的な詩学の極致を提示します。八〇年代パリを巡る思索は、書物への愛と欲望を交錯させ、創作という行為そのものを解体し、祝福します。権威を自らの肉体で塗り替えていく鮮烈な筆致は、表現に生きる全ての魂に、未知の光を授ける福音のような輝きを放っています。