Poe and Baudelaire. An aesthetics of the fragment

This article aims at addressing the question of textual fragmentation in some works by Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire as tributary to the aesthetics of the fragment as discussed by Friedrich Schlegel. The objective is to study how those authors would have created their own aesthetics of the fragment. For that purpose, the following works will be analyzed: Edgar Allan Poe’s Marginalia, A Chapter of Suggestions, Fifty Suggestions and Marginal Notes, as well as Charles Baudelaire’s Mon Coeur Mis à Nu.Este artigo pretende analisar a questão da fragmentação textual em algumas obras de Edgar Allan Poe e Charles Baudelaire como tributária da estética do fragmento discutida por Friedrich Schlegel. Objetiva-se estudar como esses autores teriam criado suas próprias estéticas do fragmento.