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Rimbaud Complete
Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete, the first and only truly complete...more
Paperback, Reprint Edition, 656 pages
Published
February 24th 2003
by Modern Library Classics
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Man, I love Rimbaud. I don't remember the first time I read his work. It was probably high school, sometime around the time I first read Rilke's Letters to a Young poet. By the time I had my most serious encounter with his work I'd already become familiar with his tabloid-esque life, the young doomed poet-warrior most of us heard about before we even read The Drunken Boat or A Season in Hell.
This edition has it all: the complete poetry and prose, superb new English translations, alon...more
This edition has it all: the complete poetry and prose, superb new English translations, alon...more
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Eye opening and challenging. I don't think that all of his work is to my taste but enough of it is to keep me reading the whole collection. The Drunken Boat stands out along with A season in Hell.
A new translation. Some poems and prose I had not read before, and certainly worth re-reading. Reading these translations, several years after the last time I read and studied Rimbaud, now in a difference place, it was quite challenging as if I was trying to understand a strange language, even in English. Reading Rimbaud's poems is like trying to figure out a dream while you are in it. Quite baffling. Reading the French, they are quite beautiful, especially aloud, as best I can. I suppose ...more
I'd never read anything by Rimbaud (maybe a poem or two in high school? I can't recall...) until I sat down with the complete works, which I ended up reading cover to cover over the course of one weekend. Rimbaud's one of those people you just want to punch in the face, he's so good. Funny, insightful, eloquent, moving. And he was a freaking teenager! Blow me, Rimbaud, you talented bastard! I'm sure you would. You're quite the perv...
The best collection of Rimbaud's work I've read. Presents several translations of his work and justifies/explains why and how the editor got to the one they chose. Also includes some really great excerpts from Rimbaud's school notebooks, poems and little blurbs, that you won't find anywhere else.
i like Mason's translations. English words just won't suffice for French most of the time in direct translation, so he adds the necessary words to color it in and give it breadth.
Rimbaud is one of those literary figures that I find myself coming back to from time to time and always developing a new fascination and affection for.
a troublemaker, rebel, thinker...genius!
the most elegant way I can say it is, good shit.
Constantly reading it.
I checked out a book of Rimbaud's poetry at the library and I really loved it so I purchased this book, but the translator is different and I don't like his versions as much as the other translator, although I don't recall who it was that did the one I liked sadly.
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