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| Title | : | A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat |
| Author | : | Arthur Rimbaud |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 104 pages |
| Published | : | June 28th 1961 by New Directions (first published 1872) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Cultural. France. Classics. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century |
Arthur Rimbaud
Paperback | Pages: 104 pages Rating: 4.34 | 7692 Users | 199 Reviews
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Although Arthur Rimbaud stopped writing at the age of 19, he possessed the most revolutionary talent of the century. His poetry & prose have increasingly influenced major writers. To his masterpiece A Season in Hell is here added Rimbaud's longest & possibly greatest single poem The Drunken Boat, with the original French en face Illuminations, Rimbaud's major works are available as bilingual New Directions Paperbooks. The reputation of A Season in Hell, which is a poetic record of a man's examination of his own depths, has steadily increased over the years. Upon the 1st publication of Varese's translation by New Directions, the Saturday Review wrote: "One may at last suggest that the translation of A Season in Hell has reached a conclusive point..." Concerning the 25-stanza The Drunken Boat, Dr Enid Starkie of Oxford University has written: "(It's) an anthology of separate lines of astonishing evocative magic which linger in the mind like isolated jewels." Rimbaud's life was so extraordinary that it has taken on the quality of a myth. A biographical chronology is included.
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| Original Title: | Une Saison en Enfer & Le bateau ivre |
| ISBN: | 0811201856 (ISBN13: 9780811201858) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Arthur Rimbaud |
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Ratings: 4.34 From 7692 Users | 199 ReviewsPiece Based On Books A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
Rimbaud was only a young boy, still growing up, and yet his works gives an explosion of emotions. The powerfulness expressed in A Season in Hell is what many writers aspire to write throughout their lives. Upon reading Rimbauds chronology, the readers see what Rimbauds life was like. Knowing his life, helped better understand why he wrote what he wrote and at the early stage of adulthood. This book, though short, was great to read. After reading the first page, I found myself reading the next,And so my heartaches kept growing and growing, and I saw myself going more and more to pieces and everyone else would have seen it, too, if I hadnt been so miserable that no one even looked at me anymore! and still more and more I craved his affection His kisses and his friendly arms around me were just like heaven a dark heaven, that I could go into, and where I wanted only to be left poor, deaf, dumb, and blind. Already, I was getting to depend on it. And I used to imagine that we were two
Pure, raw poetry.
I read this book and was fired up. I read it in college after finding out about him from the beat writers i was reading. I remember being blown away by the young writer. This book actually made me want to be a writer. I identified with the author. I carried a notebook with me, and wrote in my notebook after work.I wrote many poems and drank and walked the streets of my city observing things and people like Rimbaud once did.the writing was very emotive yet clever and intellectual at the same
I try to be neither overly awed by nor blithely dismissive of classics. That is to say, I reserve the right to my own impressions, but context sometimes suggests that you might be missing something.Clearly, I might be missing something here. My relative ignorance of Rimbauds life probably doesnt help. I read these poems twice, but didnt go over them with a fine-tooth comb. If I were in a poetry class with a good professor, and we broke it all down line-by-line, I imagine Id get more out of the
This will be brief.While looking for a particular title for a friend in a box of old books today, I came across this. I hadn't read Rimbaud in, god, twenty+ years? As a painfully twee, suis generis teenager, I guess he was a bit of a hero: a drunken, libidinal monster who, well, got laid a whole hell of a lot more than I did (though I matched him drink for drink). It's dogeared and bears all the telltales of my youth, underlined passages included. The young ladies, shockingly, did not faint at
Two of my favorite works by Arthur Rimbaud. I have read the complete works several times and always enjoy reading new translations of Rimbaud. This one has a marvelous introduction (which really illustrates where Rimbaud was at during the period of his life when he wrote "Une Saison en Enfer" -- particularly concerning his tumultuous relationship with Paul Verlaine) and it has some strengths in terms of language choices and clarity. The opening lines of "A Season in Hell" dance memorably across
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