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| Original Title: | Une saison en Enfer suivi de Les Illuminations |
| ISBN: | 0679643273 (ISBN13: 9780679643272) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Arthur Rimbaud
Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 4.32 | 2844 Users | 109 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Season in Hell & Illuminations |
| Author | : | Arthur Rimbaud |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Modern Library Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | August 9th 2005 by Modern Library (first published 1873) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature |
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“The definitive translation for our time.”–Edward Hirsch
From Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.
As a companion to Rimbaud’s journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason’s new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud’s tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power.
This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud’s life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations and A Season in Hell cement Rimbaud’s reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.
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Ratings: 4.32 From 2844 Users | 109 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books A Season in Hell & Illuminations
poets repulse me with their god forsaken wankerings. However, I've decided that I can include most other artists and humans for that matter, in the repulsive category so I decided to set my hatred aside and get this book. I'm really enjoying it.Rimbaud is a regular autumn read for me, and every time I find another captivating detail I somehow overlooked before.
Five stars for Rimbaud. Wyatt Masons translation of A Season in Hell is the best Ive read so far. At one point I was no longer reading the poem but inside its hallucinatory world. His translations of the Illuminations were less riveting. They didnt fully capture (for me) the stark, futuristic quality of those enigmatic prose poems.
A friend's boyfriend in college pounded on my door at 3am. I woke up groggy and let him in. "Hey, you like poetry, right? Well I got a poem for ya." Ok, I said. I sat on the bed and he began to read "Once if I remember it well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed..." He read on and on... I said "How long is this poem?" He said "It's the whole book!" I laughed. And we became good friends, and have been ever since. Rimbaud introduced us.
If someone told me this was the greatest work of literature anyone had ever created, I wouldn't necessarily disagree. Rimbaud's style, not quite poetry and certainly not prose, took the writing world by storm and changed it forever. His work has gone on to influence everyone from Joyce to the Beats to John Lennon. Dark, tortured, tragic, magnificent, and solely unique and original even after a hundred years. It'd be difficult to think of someone more influential than Rimbaud and the short but
Along with prose author Louis-Ferdinand Celine (the astounding hypocrite) and Cervantes (talented but misguided oaf) Arthur Rimbaud is one of the few classic authors I strenuously avoid. I shun him, his work, and his reputation. I will allow only that he had precocious, ahead-of-his-years skill in constructing poems; but not that he has any particular message or set of ideas worth attending upon.Why? Because practically no 18 yr old boy has anything relevant to say to me about anything. I don't
Such youthful passion and extreme feelings. This is forever the work of youth and wild abandon. Never read anything by Rimbaud until A Season Of Hell and was bowled over by the words...such beautiful, elegant, and fiery words! Have reread this twice and can really see what all the fuss is about for Rimbaud.
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