Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Rimbaud, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679642307 ISBN 13: 9780679642305

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2002

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Incorporating more than forty pages of previously untranslated material, this complete collection of poetry and prose by the revolutionary nineteenth-century poet includes such works as "Sensation," "The Drunken Boat," "A Season in Hell," and "Illuminations," all complemented by an authoritative introduction to the life, work, myth, and influence of Arthur Rimbaud. 15,000 first printing.

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The poetic genius of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) blossomed early and burned briefly. Nearly all of his work was composed when he was in his teens, before all trace of his literary life disappeared with him into the African desert of his later years. During the century following his death at thirty-seven, Rimbaud’s work and life have influenced generations of readers and writers. Radical in its day, Rimbaud’s writing took some of the first and most fundamental steps toward the liberation of poetry from the formal constraints of its history, and now represents one of the most powerful and enduring bodies of poetic expression in human history.

Wyatt Mason studied literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Paris. His first translation, Pierre Michon’s

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n of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete, the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason.

Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet s works. He arranges Rimbaud s writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet s rapid evolution, from the lyricism of Sensation to the groundbreaking early modernism of A Season in Hell.

In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning e

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0679642307
• ISBN 13: 9780679642305
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
• Herausgeber: Mason Wyatt
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