The postmodernist vision of history through Baudelaire's 'Le Charogne' (I)

Having recently read Gabrielle Spiegel's The Past as text, I realised how important it is to reflect on the articulation of text and reality. The more recent poststructuralist views that everything is textuality may ultimately be a foolish experiment, but it has the potential to cast light on some of the problems arising from the attempt to recover a te…