| A Season in Hell Contributor(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (Author), Revell, Donald (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1890650307 ISBN-13: 9781890650308 Publisher: Omnidawn OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: Using immediate vernacular that gives modern readers all the heady brilliance of Rimbaud's rebelliousness, this new translation contains the last poems written by one of the most influential poets before he abandoned poetry at the age of 20. Revell's essay, "Outrageous Innocence, Innocence Outraged," is offered as postscript, revealing the story of Rimbaud--his wildly creative youth, his years of breaking with traditional morality and decorum, his fame as the genius of French letters, and his early death. Analysis places these poems in the larger historical narrative of the literature of rebellious youth that has molded much of contemporary culture. Published with the original French version on facing pages, this translation will offer many the pleasure of reading this wild-child, long remembered as one of the masters of French poetry. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.8 |
| LCCN: 2007000230 |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6.37" W x 9.01" (0.39 lbs) 104 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this new translation of Arthur Rimbaud--illustrious among the 19th-century symbolists and one of the most influential poets upon the modern mind--Donald Revell captures the child-like wonder and tortured, revelatory despair of these poems, which changed, in so many ways, how we think of what a poem can say and mean. Revell's choice of a most immediate vernacular gives the modern reader all the heady brilliance in Rimbaud's rebelliousness. Yet, as Revell explains in his essay "Outrageous Innocence, Innocence Outraged," which is offered as afterword in this translation of A Season in Hell, Rimbaud's rebellious sensuality was redolent with the oracular. Revell's essay offers the story of Rimbaud--his wildly creative youth, his years of breaking with all traditions of morality and decorum, his fame as the genius of French letters who is identified as one of the creators of free verse because of his rhythm experiments in prose poems. And Revell's essay places these poems in the larger historical narrative of the literature of rebellious youth that has molded much of our contemporary culture. Published with the French on facing pages, this translation will open many readers to the pleasure of reading this wild child who was remembered after his death as one of the masters of French poetry. |