Poésies / Une saison en enfer / Illuminations

by Arthur Rimbaud, Louis Forestier (Editor)

Librarian's note: This is an ACE of ISBN 2070319555.

Ici, point de jolis poèmes ciselés, de fleurettes ni de petits oiseaux. Pas de rimes savantes ni d’audaces de versification. La Saison, ce n’est pas ce genre de poésie. C’est une plongée au cœur d’une âme effrénée qui traverse une crise morale et intellectuelle aux allures de cataclysme. Le texte est dense, épais et lumineux comme du magma en fusion, charriant un torrent de souvenirs, d’images et de symboles à la fois cryptés et transparents. Il s’écoule à une vitesse vertigineuse – c’est Rimbaud ! – et laisse le lecteur tout abasourdi de ce qu’il vient de vivre, et avide de replonger dans cette fournaise. Ou bien, s’il se prend à feuilleter cette édition üLtim, de redécouvrir sous un jour nouveau le reste de l’œuvre rimbaldienne, depuis les premières Poésies jusqu’aux Illuminations.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, France, French Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Literature

342 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1873

About the author

Hallucinatory work of French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud strongly influenced the surrealists.

With known transgressive themes, he influenced modern literature and arts, prefiguring. He started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian war. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. After assembling his last major work, Illuminations , Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 years in 1874.

A hectic, violent romantic relationship, which lasted nearly two years at times, with fellow poet Paul Verlaine engaged Rimbaud, a libertine, restless soul. After his retirement as a writer, he traveled extensively on three continents as a merchant and explorer until his death from cancer. As a poet, Rimbaud is well known for his contributions to symbolism and, among other works, for A Season in Hell , a precursor to modernist literature.

Reviews

[Luís · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rimbaud recounts Arthur and Paul. Arthur relives the mad escapade of Rimbaud and Verlaine, of the infernal husband and the angry virgin.
This long prose poem, which one could see as a story cut into chapters or as the following scenes of a drama, has nothing of an autobiography and everything of an experience, of a quest carried out fiercely to its end, without concession, respite, self-pity, or false modesty.
And in this Season in Hell - which we believed for a long time to be Rimbaud's "poetic testament" before realizing that some of the Illuminations were writing after this presumed farewell to poetry - the poet -thief-of-fire gathers a few sparks of magic: the color of the vowels, the complete devotion of the poet to his goal, whatever it may cost him, in short, he traces the road, not to hell but to new paths that go, behind this young libertarian madman, borrows all modern poetry.
Therefore, there's a false poetic autobiography and tangible progress in the jungle of words and images.
The infernal husband opens to us the "doors of horn and ivory" that Nerval already wanted to open, joins and passes Baudelaire "at the bottom of the Unknown to find the New" and goes far ahead...exhausting" all dizziness," cultivating all the madness .... before leaving for Abyssinia to deal in arms ... Another adventure.

[Michael Finocchiaro · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most controversial poets in the French canon, Rimbaud was a violent romantic who wrote some of the most powerful poetry in the belle langue ever written. This collection brings together some of his best work. Another brilliant talent that burned out (and in an awful way) way too young.

[MJ Nicholls · Rating 4 out of 5]

My forays into the canonical French poets continues with Rimbaud’s collected works. Poems 1869-1871 collects his “early” verses—all politicised fury, snotty swagger and clunky line breaks. Assorted Scribbles (not its real title) collects his vulgar heretical rants, cheeky fantasies and anti-other-poet slapdowns. A Season in Hell reads like the ravings of a melodramatic teenager after his first dumping in the McDonald’s car park. Illuminations is an incredibly mature, visionary work of symbolist poetry that influenced most French poetry that came after, the American Black Mountain poets, and (sort of) Bob Dylan and (definitely) Patti Smith. And this. And this. This volume from Oxford Classics contains the parallel French text, which is useless to me, but might be useful if you . . . speak French. (But then why would you need the English text?) Wondrous.

[Quiver · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rimbaud is well known for being the man who said "Je est un autre" (I is another), and who then proceeded to indeed become someone else at the age of twenty-one, when he quit writing poetry, having completed A Season in Hell and Illuminations. His tempestuous relationship with Verlaine add further colour to the early part of his biography.

According to requirements, Rimbaud has been claimed variously as prophet, angel, superman, bad boy, God, and Devil.
(From the Introduction by Martin Sorrell)

My reading of Rimbaud can hardly add to such grand monikers, but I did appreciate his verse for what it is: refreshing, vivid, and moving.

One intriguing poem is 'Seven-Year-Old Poet', which describes a rather world-wise and precocious child on his way to becoming a poet. Here is the end:

How he relished dark things, about all
When in his tall, bare, blue and empty
Shuttered room, sharp with humidity,
He read his endlessly planned romance
Full of heavy ochre skies and drowned
Forests, flesh-flowers in star-studded woods,
Spiral spins, routs, collapse and pity!
—While down in the street the noise went on,
He lay alone on rough sheets, thinking
Violent thoughts of getting under sail!

For a particularly beautiful, melodic rendition of the original poem, listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp6eZ...


This review is part of a series that includes:
- Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil ,
- Stéphane Mallarmé’s Collected Poems ,
- Paul Verlaine’s Selected Poems ,
- Guillaume Apollinaire’s Selected Poems ,
- and Paul Valéry’s Selected Writings .

[Adriana Scarpin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Edição espetacular não só por ser bilingue e ter os versos de Rimbaud em seu idioma original, mas sobretudo pelo dinamismo de Ivo Barroso que o traduziu e inseriu vasto conteúdo através de notas. Sublime.

[Fede · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reread while helping a kid with her homework.

Meh.

[Saturn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Io mi credo all'inferno, quindi ci sono.

Questi componimenti hanno rappresentato per me un notevole grado di difficoltà. Le raccolte Poesie e Ultimi versi sono le più agevoli e in esse traspare tutto il carattere di Rimbaud che guarda alla vita con uno sguardo aspro, disilluso, cinico e sarcastico. Prende in giro tutti i canoni classici della poesia, il suo tono è sprezzante e amaro. Nel poema in prosa Una stagione all'inferno viene fuori il suo malessere nei confronti della società e il conflitto che ingaggia col mondo che lo circonda. La raccolta Illuminazioni è fra le cose più ostiche che mi sia capitato di leggere. Solo brevi squarci riuscivano a illuminare la prosa di questi componimenti, che sono volutamente asintattici e spesso enigmatici. Raramente riuscivo a capire di cosa stesse parlando il poema che leggevo. La difficoltà di accedere alle note di questo ebook non ha aiutato, dato che le note erano poste a piè delle pagine in francese e non della traduzione.

[Emm17]

À part quelques poèmes que j'ai beaucoup appréciés découvrir (et même redécouvrir), je dois cependant avouer que je suis passée à côté de la grande majorité. Les thématiques abordées ne sont pas vraiment celles que je recherche quand je décide de me plonger dans un recueil de poésie.
Je suis quand même contente de l'avoir découvert et d'avoir un aperçu un peu plus global de l'oeuvre de Rimbaud.

[ccxhhrl ♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

une saison en enfer > les illuminations

[luciana · Rating 3 out of 5]

not a lot of material but the dude can WRITE

[belljareads · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
A large part of it went over my head to be honest ... I was excepting more from his poetry, most of the time it did not touch me at all.

[Paco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Une saison en enfer

C'est un livre bouleversant mais aussi émouvant , sincère et bien écrit qui nous transporte dans les confins de l'esprit d'Arthur Rimbaud dans sa période de dépression à la suite de sa lecture avec Paul Verlaine . Il écrit ses sentiments pendant cette période, son désespoir, sa tristesse , sa haine pour la vie... d'une façon si sincère que l'on a l'impression d'entendre directement Rimbaud qui nous parle à la lecture des poèmes de ce dernier. Les poèmes d'Une saison en enfer sont aussi le résumé ce que certaines personnes comme moi ressentent parfois ce qui nous donne l'impression qu'au moins une personne comprend notre tristesse et notre désespoir. Aussi, on a l'impression qu'il s'agit d'une autobiographie poétique ce qui nous permet de mieux connaître un écrivain aujourd'hui symbole du livre et de la poésie. Et cette autobiographie, elle est incroyablement bien écrite , à la fois construite et originale, lyrique et émouvante , il n'y a qu'un seul mot pour décrire le style de Rimbaud : excellent et il n'y a rien de plus vrai.
C'est un livre à lire et à relire , si vous ne l'avez pas lu , lisez-le car vous aurez manqué l'œuvre exceptionnel d'un grand artiste .

[Nicky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can translate French well enough that I could grasp some of this, though I have no prior experience with other French poetry of the period. What I understood was gorgeous -- and the prose translations underneath did help, despite being, well, prosaic.

I'm going to keep working on understanding this fully...

[Sass · Rating 2 out of 5]

J’ai apprécié peut être deux ou trois fragments. Déjà lu l’année dernière et j’avais déjà peu aimé, rien n’a changé. C’est beaucoup trop hermétique, même dans les notes de mon édition, le spécialiste est pas sûr de ce qu’il avance. En fait personne ne sait ce que Rimbaud a voulu dire avec ses textes.

[Sümeyra · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Dünya aşka susamış, susuzluğunu dindir.”

“Ben ki, yenmiş yutulmuşsa yüreğim,
Ey çalınmış yürek n’eyleyeceğim? “

***‘Duyuların sistemli bozumu’
Sembolik şiir
Kötülük Çiçekleri’nden etkilenilmiş benzer arzu, güzellik ve çürüme etkisi
16 yaşında başlayıp 20 yaşında son bulan “Ben, bir başkadır.” düşü(şü)
Arayış vs Aldanış

[Rachel B · Rating 5 out of 5]

c'est une folie ce recueil franchement chapeau arthur

[Gizem Cevher · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/5

[Greta 哥珍珠 · Rating 4 out of 5]

La maggior parte dei componimenti in versi di Rimbaud descrive scene di vita quotidiana e hanno come protagonisti persone umili (operai, contadini, senzatetto, etc.), dipinti nella cruda realtà della loro esistenza. Il poeta racconta spesso della sua situazione di vagabondo senza una meta e la disperazione della sua condizione si alterna con poesie ricche di vita e allegria. Una delle poesie che ho maggiormente apprezzato (una delle più famose di Rimbaud) è “Voyelles” (Vocali), nella quale l’autore attribuisce a ogni vocale un colore, trasformando un concetto astratto in un’immagine visiva.
“Une saison en enfer” e “Illuminations”, al contrario, sono opere in prosa. In queste ultime Rimbaud, ormai adulto, rimpiange la sua giovinezza e sembra rinnegare le poesie del passato. La disperazione e la presa di coscienza della propria situazione sono temi presenti in quasi tutti i componimenti.

[Eadweard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great poems, specially the angsty ones. A Season In Hell was also great.



"What I liked were absurd paintings, decorations over doorways, stage scenery, travelling fairs’ backcloths, inn-signs, cheap coloured prints; literature gone out of fashion, church Latin, erotic books with bad spelling, novels our grandmothers used to read, fairy-tales, little books for children, old operas, meaningless refrains, crude rhythms.

I dreamed of crusades, unlogged journeys of discovery, republics with no history, wars of religion put down, revolutions in manners, races and continents on the move: I believed in each and every piece of magic."

[Astrid · Rating 3 out of 5]

La prose de Rimbaud me paraît mieux réussie que ses poèmes. Opinion pas très populaire en littérature, mais c'est la vérité de la chose. Victoire personnelle : à sa relecture deux ans plus tard, j'ai enfin cru comprendre la section Illuminations.

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I prefer Rimbaud's prose to his poetry, albeit the first could be considered as poetic prose. Not a very popular opinion in literature, but it's how I see it. Also managed to understand the Illuminations two years after my first reading of them.

[Eleonora]

Si può essere innamorati di un poeta?
Ebbene, a me è capitato con Rimbaud: non amo molto la sua poesia, ma sono follemente innamorata di lui. 🙊
La sua energia, la sua necessità di evadere, i suoi pensieri lo rendono diverso da tutti gli altri poeti. Lo rendono l'eccezione alla regola e la sua anima ribelle lo rende così potente da lasciare una sua traccia in ogni suo passo.🌼

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice overview of the work of Rimbaud. Rather for the lovers of his poetry, because strongly hermetic.

[Diletta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bella sopratutto l'ultima parte, "Una stagione all'inferno" e "Illuminazioni". Mi sa che comunque mi son confusa, mi ispirava di più Verlaine. Provvederò.

[Valentine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now that i understand😭

[Schwarzer_Elch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Entiendo la importancia de Rimbaud en la literatura francesa y universal. Su trabajo poético es interesante, pero, lamentablemente, más de 100 años después de su publicación, ya no se trata de textos contemporáneos. De hecho, están un poco desfazados y cuesta seguirles el ritmo. No solo a nivel estructural, sino también en cuenta al uso del vocabulario y de los temas que se abordan. Me costó mucho entender varios de los poemas por las referencias históricas, sociales y locales relacionadas a Francia, las cuales, obviamente, no se encuentran en mi bagaje cultural.

[māris šteinbergs · Rating 4 out of 5]

francūži vienmēr rakstīs franču dzeju
patiesi jāsaka, ka savā kvīru literatūras izmeklējumā, kvalitatīvas, jūtamas, redzamas, lasāmas un reflektīvas kvīru pieredzes nav tik daudz

arī šajā dzejā tā slēpjas. tā ir nedaudz, nedaudz vairāk kā citur. tā ir nedaudz īstākā nekā kādā no populārākās geju grāmatām, bet tā ir visai kaunaina

es domāju, ka var būt kvīru pieredze, to pieredzēt un aprakstīt pilni, bet ne ar kauna sajūtu. šeit arī es palieku domāt, kamēr lasu Manna ‘Nāve Venēcijā’
#kvīruvasara

[Alex Braun · Rating 4 out of 5]

if i read this a few years ago it would've changed my life. amazing to see how quickly he evolved in his few years writing.

the political poems are like initially interesting but become boring quickly, poets at the dawn of nationalism all kinda felt the same i think but the french ones are so patriotic. the earlier romantic poems are so beautiful, the nostalgic ones too, knockout. and the later poems feel so modern still, definitely see what Dylan was drawing from.

[Laurence R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

« Le dormeur du val »... <3

[Ocean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes a bit over the top, but when would you be extra if not when writing poetry ?
Nonetheless: genius, stunning and still absolutely relevant.

** read in french, bien sûr !

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qué traducción más mala santo cristo