New Directions
Season in Hell & the Drunken Boat/Une Saison En Enfer & Le Bateau Ivre
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Author: Arthur Rimbaud
ISBN: 9780811201858
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1961
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 108
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:
Although he stopped writing at the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) possessed the most revolutionary talent of the past hundred years, and his poetry and prose have increasingly influenced the major writers of our century. To his masterpiece A Season in Hell is here added Rimbaud's longest and possibly greatest single poem The Drunken Boat, with the original French en face.
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 first publication of Mrs. 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 twenty-five-stanza The Drunken Boat, Dr. Enid Starkie of Oxford University has written: (It is) 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 in this book.
