Rimbaud: The Works: A Season in Hell; Poems & Prose; Illuminations - Softcover

Rimbaud, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738852007 ISBN 13: 9780738852003

Verlag: Xlibris, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

the weird combination of craziness, immaturity, intuition and insight, obscenity and remorse . . . that marks Rimbaud's work."

-Martin Kanes Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities University of New York

" . . . [the vers nouveaux are] matchlessly beautiful . . . This is Rimbaud cast in the language of Twain and Whitman!"

-Bertrand Mathieu Author of Orpheus in Brooklyn Translator of A Season in Hell and Illuminations

"The punk Prometheus comes to life and sings. Les Corbeaux works as never before . . . I am impressed by the confident English poems made from early Rimbaud . . . "

-Ethan Fischer, Antietam Review

Cover illustration by Alexia Montibon

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Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a visionary French poet from Charleville who dreamed of reinventing love and changing life with his poetry. At the age of sixteen, he traveled to Paris at the invitation of poet Paul Verlaine, ten years his senior, and exploded onto the literary scene with "The Drunken Boat." In the ensuing years, Rimbaud further confirmed his place in literature with the spiritual autobiography "A Season in Hell" (the only work Rimbaud had printed himself) and forty-four scintillating prose texts that were later published as "The Illuminations." As notorious for his life as he was for his poetry, Rimbaud had a productive but tumultuous relationship with Verlaine, who shot him in the wrist in Brussels. After abandoning literature at the age of twenty-one, Rimbaud enlisted in the Dutch colonial army in order to travel Java, deserting four months later and returning to France. In 1878, he traveled to Cyprus and worked as a foreman at a stone quarry. Two years later, he was living and working in Aden, Yemen, and then in Harar, Ethiopia, for an export agency. In 1885, he negotiated an arms deal with Menelik, the King of Shoa. A great walker all his life, Rimbaud developed a tumor in his right knee and soon returned to France in excruciating pain. His condition worsened, requiring doctors to amputate his right leg. Rimbaud died at the Hôpital de Conception in Marseille in 1891 at the age of thirty-seven; his body was returned to Charleville and buried in the Charleville-Mézières cemetery. Rimbaud's life and work have inspired countless writers, artists, and musicians, including the French Symbolists, the Beat generation, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and Jim Morrison.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0738852007
• ISBN 13: 9780738852003
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444
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