His interest in Sterne and other English writers of the 18th century... and in the French poets who followed Baudelaire... was an attempt to rebuild the city in which he found himself... as if the 19th century had never happened.
As súas pesquisas sobre os escritores ingleses do S. XVIII e poetas franceses posteriores a Baudelaire, eran un intento de reconstruír a súa cidade, como se o século XIX non tivera existido xamais...