Research Catalog

Title

A season in hell ; and, Illuminations / Arthur Rimbaud ; translated by Mark Treharne.

Author

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891

Publication

London : J.M. Dent, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Treharne, Mark

Description

xxxi, 164 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Although he abandoned poetry before he was twenty-one years old, and wrote for only five or six years in all, Arthur Rimbaud has had an extraordinary influence on modern poetry. His work helped inspire poetic Symbolism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Rimbaud dreamed of re-creating life through his words. Not content merely to describe the world, he longed to reorder it through his revolutionary poetry. He rebelled against all forms of hypocrisy, as well as against conventional concepts of love, morality, religion, and art. He even dreamed of liberating women from "endless servitude." Written a century ago, A Season in Hell and The Illuminations read like the works of an avant-garde poet of today. In her Introduction dealing with Rimbaud's life and work, Enid Rhodes Peschel discusses his concept of the voyant, the poet-visionary he dreamed of becoming through a "reasoned deranging of all his senses." A Season in Hell, which combines autobiography with self-appraisal, vision and hallucination, reflects Rimbaud's tortures in trying to be a voyant. The forty-two poems of The Illuminations, kaleidoscopic evocations of a universe in continual evolution, are further evidence of his attempts to reach this transcendent state. Enid Rhodes Peschel has succeeded in not only translating these works but in recreating them. Eye, ear, mind, and heart have all been engaged in her effort to capture the tone and rhythm of Rimbaud's language as well as the quality of his thought.
• This new translation captures the tone and rhythm of Rimbaud's language as well as the quality of his thought.

Uniform Title

Saison en enfer. English & French

Alternative Title

• Saison en enfer.
• Season in hell; and, Illuminations
• Illuminations.

Subject

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• Parallel texts in French and English.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-164) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rimbaud's Life and Work -- A Note on Translation -- Une Saison en enfer -- A Season in Hell -- Les Illuminations -- The Illuminations -- Index of French Titles -- Index of English Titles.

ISBN

• 0460879847 (pbk.)
• 0460879588

OCLC

39643688

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library