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Title: Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library) by Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason ISBN: 0-679-64230-7 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A quite suitable rendition
Comment: First, of all I must say that this book is a godsend. I've been trying to piece my way through the Oeuvres Completes for some time now, and having Jugurtha, the Prologue and some of the other earlier texts from 1866-1870 in English is a great pleasure. Possibly the only thing necessary now is a translation of Akakia Viala and Nicolas Bataillet's 1949 "La chasse spirituelle", which is in some French editions. However, despite the wealth of new material which Mason's translation gives us, I find it is still lacking when compared to Fowlie's. The decision not to print the original French texts on the facing page was a great error, and despite some very excellent renditions of the poems (particularly Memoire), Mason still does not have Fowlie's sense to leave the poems as they are and let the words speak for themselves. However, alongside Louise Varese's translations of the prose & of course Fowlie, most probably, this will come to be seen very shortly as one of the three indespensible Rimbaud translations that we have available in English.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally: A Great Translation of Rimbaud
Comment: Some unnamed reviewer up above claims "There have been no fully satisfactory translations of the brilliant modernist forerunner Rimbaud." Whoever wrote that clearly didn't read Wyatt Mason's new translation of Rimbaud's complete works very carefully, because it's a lot more that satisfactory: it's beautiful. While the Wallace Fowlie translation (the blue one) is dependable, it's nothing more than that. It's good if you read French pretty well and need some help. But if you want to try to experience Rimbaud's poems in English as Poems, Mason's work is the only time I've found myself reading along and finding that he's caught both the meanings of words and the feeling of the poems (my mother is French, so I have read Rimbaud in the original). Mason's introduction is also, far and away, the best brief essay on Rimbaud's life and art imaginable, and it also talks really interestingly about translating poetry, and how he's gone about it. This is also the only edition available in English that contains everything Rimbaud wrote. The others, even if they say they're complete, don't come close. Neither do the other translators. I can't recommend this book enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: rimbaud rocks!
Comment: mason takes liberty with the texts, but i dig it. to really understand rimbaud you need to read him in french, but if you can't, the next best thing is to read fowlie's book and then this one. then read henry miller.
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Title: I Promise to Be Good : The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud by WYATT MASON, ARTHUR RIMBAUD ISBN: 067964301X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Rimbaud: A Biography by Graham Robb ISBN: 039332267X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Letters by Fowlie Wallace, Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud ISBN: 0226719731 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 1966 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Complete Poems by Walter Martin, Charles P. Baudelaire ISBN: 0415940923 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl ISBN: 0226580296 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.20 |
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