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| Title | : | A Season in Hell |
| Author | : | Arthur Rimbaud |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 87 pages |
| Published | : | December 3rd 2005 by Bulfinch Press (first published 1873) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Fiction. Literature. 19th Century |
Arthur Rimbaud
Hardcover | Pages: 87 pages Rating: 4.12 | 3260 Users | 243 Reviews
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I'm an organized person. Psychotically organized. Except when it comes to books. I try to plan my readings, I try to finish one book in order to begin a new one, but it's all in vain. I read what I want to read, whenever I have the need of reading it. So, with four books on my currently-reading shelf, today I felt like reading something different. First, some weird stuff by Tim Burton, then, A Season in Hell caught my attention and here we are.Anyway, this is one of those books I should read while being drunk. Unfortunately, I don't drink. So, it was kind of difficult to understand what the hell I was reading. This prose work, written by Rimbaud at age 18, is divided into nine parts. And that's the most accurate observation I can give. The rest is pure symbolism hard to get if you haven't read something about his life and his troubled affair with Verlaine (quite a profound inspiration here). These are words written by a young and tormented soul, desperate to put everything out there, to purge himself. Words written with exquisite sensibility, describing beautiful, dark, intense images. I saw that, in all its glory, in the first part, Introduction.
The second part, Bad Blood, it's a collection of the consequences of his ancestors, his blood, and other weird reflections that made me think I probably wouldn't like what he was smoking at that time.
The third part was... well, I don't want to say that I enjoyed reading it, because it's about the narrator's death and his arrival to hell (nothing really nice to read right before going to bed, honestly), but it's beautifully written. Again, this young man makes you feel what was going through his mind and soul with unsettling details.
The forth part is Ravings I, Foolish Virgin, The Infernal Spouse. I'm guessing you can imagine to whom he's referring in this one.
I shouldn't keep spoiling this, right?. So, during all this strange journey from existence on earth to condemnation in hell, it remains only one question to be asked: can he be saved? Even though he's already in hell, can he find any sort of mitigation, salvation even?
Yeah... I'm not answering that. I had a good, weird, dark, sad, freaky, confusing, unsettling, challenging, disturbing read. Your turn.
May 21, 14
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Mention Books In Favor Of A Season in Hell
| Original Title: | Une saison en enfer |
| ISBN: | 0821224581 (ISBN13: 9780821224588) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books A Season in Hell
Ratings: 4.12 From 3260 Users | 243 ReviewsCriticism About Books A Season in Hell
One of the most memorable pieces of writing that I have ever read. Rimbaud's mind must have been a strange and wonderful place in which to exist.I shall waste no words describing or criticizing the poem itself; its place as one of the greatest poems of all time is secure, and its meaning, purpose, and poetic techniques are well understood and appreciated. However, there is a problem: most previous translations from the original French have "elevated" the text to that which might be written by a middle-aged or older scholar (while, I do admit, preserving its meaning). All fans know that Rimbaud wrote this, his last poem, when he was 19
Wyatt Mason translation.
I find Rimbaud's writing rather sophomoric and bland. I wish I had read him at a much younger age.
I had a slightly hard time getting into this book, but once I got through it, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Definitely not your standard book of poems. It's the source of the title for the Tom Robbins novel "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates".
Just an astonishing collection considering Rimbaud's youth and relative inexperience in the world. That some one in his late teen years, basically age 16 to 19, could convey such depth of emotion and such a fiery personality just floors me. Talk about a rock star before rock stars existed!!!
Title: Une saison en enferAuthor: Arthur RimbaudRelease Date: March 2, 2018 [EBook #56668]Language: FrenchProduced by Laura N.R. & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.)Free download available at Project Gutenberg.I made the proofing of this book for Free Literature and it will be published by Project Gutenberg.L'EternitéElle est retrouvée.Quoi ? - L'Eternité.C'est la mer alléeAvec le soleil.Ame sentinelle,Murmurons
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