Este artigo analisa os diálogos entre dois poemas de Charles Baudelaire – “Castigo do Orgulho” e “Uma Carniça” – que constam em As Flores do Mal, e a história da loucura de Nabucodonosor II, segundo o relato do Livro de Daniel. Foram debatidos os aspectos formais, estilísticos, morfossintáticos e, principalmente, semânticos, para explorar as formas de representação da religião e do belo na obra do poeta francês, inclusive frente às ideias de Kant sobre o belo e o sublime. Além disso, foram realizadas reflexões sobre como Baudelaire aborda as características do Ocidente de sua época, as quais permanecem atuais. No tocante à teoria da literatura, foram utilizadas obras de Walter Benjamin (2021), Benedetto Croce (1967), Hugo Friedrich (1991), Octavio Paz (1993), Eduardo Veras (2022) e, no tocante a questões históricas e bíblicas, obras de Rodrigo Silva (2005) e John Walton (2021), entre outros.
This article is an analysis of the dialogues among the poems “The punishment of pride”, “A carcass” – both from The Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire – and the episode of the madness of Nebuchadnezzar II, as told in the Book of Daniel. The intrinsic and extrinsic aspects of these texts were discussed in order to comprehend the religious representations and the ideals of beauty in Baudelaire’s texts, also regarding Kant’s ideas of “beauty” and “sublime”. Baudelaire’s perceptions about the gears of the Western World were visited, once many of these aspects remain alive. As theoretical resources, we resorted to authors such as Walter Benjamin (2021), Benedetto Croce (1967), Hugo Friedrich (1991), Octavio Paz (1993) and Eduardo Veras (2022). Regarding the enlightenment of historical and biblical matters, we relied on Rodrigo Silva (2005) and John Walton (2021), mainly.
