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Title: Illuminations (New Directions Paperbook, No. 56) by Arthur Rimbaud ISBN: 0-8112-0184-8 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: misfires
Comment: These metaphysical wet dreams will delight sulky teenagers and juveniles of all ages, but adults will agree with Rimbaud's own judgement: "It's all slop." The Varese translation leaves most of the (rumored) music behind in the original French; what remains is the prose end of the prose-poem equation. I found these pieces supremely boring. Perhaps if I cared about the Rimbaud myth I would read these with different eyes-- but I don't, and therefore what I find is faux passion and histrionic hormones. Add a stilted English to this mixture and the result is malodorous. Not recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Forefather to Modern Poetry and Thought
Comment: The works of Rimbaud have become as famous for the character of the writer as for the writings themselves. However, with any work of art, the true test will be the content of the work rather than the person behind the pen. That said, the prose poetry of this child-man artist was an attempt to break away from all types of oppression in all forms (as viewed by Rimbaud): tradition, social expectation, as well as literary convention. First and foremost, Rimbaud was a thinker and then a writer but, unlike many philosophical writers (verses aesthetic writers, i.e.--Proust), he rarely lapses into didacticism. As for the content of his writing, one must consider that Rimbaud prefaced many literary movements, including psychoanalysis in his attempt to let one's "true self" write by "deranging the senses"; his focus on synesthesia predated the Dada movement and allowed him to become a godfather to the Surrealists; his themes of impotence and suffering foreshadowed the existentialists; and his use of multiple narrators foresaw the upcoming modernists in 20th century America.
Rating: 5
Summary: There is a clock which never strikes...
Comment: Though her translations are flawed and somewhat dated, Louise Varese still has not been topped as a the bringer-into-English of lil' Arther R.'s thorny prose-poems. Her versions remain closer in spirit to the originals than any of the later translations, most of which (if you'll pardon my French) suck, from the bland lazy word-for-word of the Penguin Classics edition, to the innumerable "interpreters" (Paul Schmidt and his shameless ilk) who make of his poems what they will (sometimes to further lengths than JR Ullman did with "The Day On Fire") and then call their work "translations." Anyway, if you know Rimbaud I'm probably preaching to the converted, and if you don't, and don't read French, the two New Directions/Varese translations are probably the best place to start, along with Pierre Petitfils' user-friendly biography.
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Title: A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by N Rimbaud ISBN: 0811201856 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 June, 1961 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Letters by Fowlie Wallace ISBN: 0226719731 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1966 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook, 294) by Charles Baudelaire ISBN: 0811200078 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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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: The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Baudelaire, James McGowan ISBN: 0192835459 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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