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Rimbaud - Complete Works, Selected Letters (English, French, Hardcover, Revised)
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Rimbaud - Complete Works, Selected Letters (English, French, Hardcover, Revised)
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The "enfant terrible" of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur
Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some
of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century,
all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one.
More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues
to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for
his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and
his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his
hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose.
The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was
published in 1966, "Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters"
introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated
genius--among them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote
to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems
accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty
years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual
edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works.
Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes
on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems,
adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and
updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are
Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex
and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that
considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography
that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the
original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, "Rimbaud"
remains the most authoritative--and now, completely
up-to-date--edition ofthe young master's entire poetic ouvre.
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