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Illuminations

English

By (author): Arthur Rimbaud

Translated by: John Ashbery

The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbauds Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashberys dazzling (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French text in parallel and a preface by its translator, Ashberys rendering powerfully evokes the glittering, kaleidoscopic beauty of the original See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 198g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393341829

About Arthur Rimbaud

Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death in 1891 Arthur Rimbaud has become one of the most liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. Born Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville France in 1854 Rimbauds family moved to Cours dOrléans when he was eight where he began studying both Latin and Greek at the Pension Rossat. While he disliked school Rimbaud excelled in his studies and encouraged by a private tutor tried his hand at poetry. Shortly thereafter Rimbaud sent his work to the renowned symbolist poet Paul Verlaine and received in response a one-way ticket to Paris. By late September 1871 at the age of sixteen Rimbaud had ignited with Verlaine one of the most notoriously turbulent affairs in the history of literature. Their relationship reached a boiling point in the summer of 1873 when Verlaine frustrated by an increasingly distant Rimbaud attacked his lover with a revolver in a drunken rage. The act sent Verlaine to prison and Rimbaud back to Charleville to finish his work on A Season in Hell. The following year Rimbaud traveled to London with the poet Germain Nouveau to compile and publish his transcendent Illuminations. It was to be Rimbauds final publication. By 1880 he would give up writing altogether for a more stable life as merchant in Yemen where he stayed until a painful condition in his knee forced him back to France for treatment. In 1891 Rimbaud was misdiagnosed with a case of tuberculosis synovitis and advised to have his leg removed. Only after the amputation did doctors determine Rimbaud was in fact suffering from cancer. Rimbaud died in Marseille in November of 1891 at the age of 37. He is now considered a saint to symbolists and surrealists and his body of works which include Le bateau ivre (1871) Une Saison en Enfer (1873) and Les Illuminations (1873) have been widely recognized as a major influence on artists stretching from Pablo Picasso to Bob Dylan. Pulitzer Prizewinning poet John Ashbery (19272017) translated many French writers including Alfred Jarry Pierre Reverdy and Raymond Roussel. In 2011 he was awarded the National Book Foundations Lifetime Achievement Award.

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