Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters - Softcover

Rimbaud, Arthur; Fowlie, Wallace; Whidden, Seth Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226719774 ISBN 13: 9780226719771

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2005

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The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose.

The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated genius—among them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works.

Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, Rimbaud remains the most authoritative—and now, completely up-to-date—edition of the young master's entire poetic ouvre.

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Wallace Fowlie (1908-98) was the James B. Duke Professor of French Literature at Duke University. He was the author or translator of thirty books, including Rimbaud: A Critical Study and Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet. Seth Whidden is assistant professor of French at Villanova University and coeditor-in-chief of Parade sauvage, the scholarly journal of Rimbaud studies.

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Rimbaud Complete Works, Selected Letters

A Bilingual EditionBy Arthur Rimbaud

The University of Chicago Press

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Contents

List of Illustrations.........................................................................................................................................xiiiForeword (2005) by Seth Whidden...............................................................................................................................xvAcknowledgments...............................................................................................................................................xxvSelected Bibliography (a partial listing of works published since 1966).......................................................................................xxviiIntroduction (1966) by Wallace Fowlie.........................................................................................................................xxxiPosies / Poetry1869 / 1869Les trennes des orphelins / The Orphans' Gifts (New Year's)..................................................................................................41870 / 1870Sensation / Sensation.........................................................................................................................................12Soleil et chair / Sun and Flesh...............................................................................................................................12Ophlie / Ophelia.............................................................................................................................................22Venus Anadyomne / Venus Anadyomene...........................................................................................................................24Premire soire / The First Evening...........................................................................................................................26Les reparties de Nina / Nina's Replies........................................................................................................................28"Morts de Quatre-vingt-douze [...]" / "Dead of '92 [...]".....................................................................................................34Les effars / The Frightened Ones.............................................................................................................................36Roman / Novel.................................................................................................................................................38Rv pour l'hiver / A Dream for Winter........................................................................................................................42Le buffet / The Cupboard......................................................................................................................................42L'clatante victoire de Sarrebrck / The Dazzling Victory of Sarrebruck.......................................................................................44La maline / The Sly Girl......................................................................................................................................44Au Cabaret-Vert / At the Cabaret-Vert.........................................................................................................................46Le dormeur du val / The Sleeper in the Valley.................................................................................................................46 la musique / To Music.......................................................................................................................................48Bal des pendus / Dance of the Hanged Men......................................................................................................................50Le chtiment de Tartufe / Tartufe's Punishment................................................................................................................54Le forgeron / The Blacksmith..................................................................................................................................54Ma bohme (Fantaisie) / My Bohemian Life (Fantasy)............................................................................................................64Le mal / Evil.................................................................................................................................................66Rages de Csars / Caesars' Rages..............................................................................................................................68Pomes dats de 1871-dbut 1872 ou dans des lettres de mai ou juin 1871 / Poems dated 1871-early 1872 or in letters from May or June 1871Le coeur vol / The Stolen Heart..............................................................................................................................72Chant de guerre parisien / Parisian War Song..................................................................................................................72Mes petites amoureuses / My Little Lovers.....................................................................................................................76Accroupissements / Squattings.................................................................................................................................78Les potes de sept ans / Seven-year-old Poets.................................................................................................................80L'orgie parisienne ou Paris se repeuple / Parisian Orgy or Paris is Repopulated...............................................................................84Les pauvres l'glise / The Poor in Church...................................................................................................................90Les soeurs de charit / Sisters of Charity....................................................................................................................92L'homme juste / The Just Man..................................................................................................................................94Les premires Communions / First Communions...................................................................................................................98Ce qu'on dit au Pote propos de fleurs / What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers........................................................................108Les mains de Jeanne-Marie / The Hands of Jeanne-Marie.........................................................................................................118Pomes non dats (fin 1870-dbut 1872?) / Undated poems (late 1870-early 1872?)Les assis / The Seated Men....................................................................................................................................126Le bateau ivre / The Drunken Boat.............................................................................................................................128Les chercheuses de poux / The Seekers of Lice.................................................................................................................134Les douaniers / The Customs Men...............................................................................................................................136"L'toile a pleur rose [...]" / "The star wept rose-colored [...]"...........................................................................................138Oraison du soir / Evening...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226719774
• ISBN 13: 9780226719771
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 458
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