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Rimbaud Complete (Paperback): Arthur Rimbaud Rimbaud Complete (Paperback)
Arthur Rimbaud; Translated by Wyatt Mason; Edited by Wyatt Mason; Introduction by Wyatt Mason
R459 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R66 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 edition of Rimbaud’s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason.

Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet’s works. He arranges Rimbaud’s writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet’s rapid evolution, from the lyricism of “Sensation” to the groundbreaking early modernism of A Season in Hell.

In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning early verses, all the fragmentary poems, a fascinating early draft of A Season in Hell, a school notebook, and multiple manuscript versions of the important poem “O saisons, ô chateaux,” Rimbaud Complete displays facets of the poet unknown to American readers. And in his Introduction, Mason revisits the Rimbaud myth, addresses the state of disarray in which the poet left his work, and illuminates the intricacies of the translator’s art.

Mason has harnessed the precision and power of the poet’s rapidly changing voice: from the delicate music of a poem such as “Crows” to the mature dissonance of the Illuminations, Rimbaud Complete unveils this essential poet for a new generation of readers.


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The Origin of the World (Paperback): Pierre Michon The Origin of the World (Paperback)
Pierre Michon; Translated by Wyatt Mason; Afterword by Roger Shattuck
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular charm. Yvonne. Yvonne. "Everything about her screamed desire...setting something in motion while settling a fingertip to the counter, turning her head slightly, gold earrings brushing her cheek while she watched you or watched nothing at all; this desire was open, like a wound; and she knew it, wore it with valor, with passion." Michon probes the destructive powers of passion and the consuming need for love in this heartbreaking novel.

I Promise to Be Good - The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Paperback): Arthur Rimbaud I Promise to Be Good - The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Paperback)
Arthur Rimbaud; Translated by Wyatt Mason
R421 R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Save R40 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud's life depend on one main source for information--his own correspondence--a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now.
A moving document of decline, Rimbaud's letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaud--presented by many biographers as a bohemian wild man--is unveiled as "diligent in his pursuit of his goals . . . wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything."
"I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud" is the second and final volume in Mason's authoritative presentation of Rimbaud's writings. Called by Edward Hirsch "the definitive translation for our time," Mason's first volume, "Rimbaud Complete" (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud's poetry and prose into vivid focus. In "I Promise to Be Good," Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. "These letters," he writes, "are proofs in all their variety--of impudence and precocity, of tenderness and rage--for the existence of Arthur Rimbaud." "I Promise to Be Good" allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Season in Hell and Illuminations (Paperback): Arthur Rimbaud Season in Hell and Illuminations (Paperback)
Arthur Rimbaud; Introduction by Wyatt Mason
R434 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R52 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Authoritative editions of great classics of world literature feature introductions by acclaimed writers, meticulous translations of foreign literature, commentary by distinguished writers and critics, biographical notes, and a comprehensive Reading Group Guide bound into each volume.

Masters and Servants (Paperback): Pierre Michon Masters and Servants (Paperback)
Pierre Michon; Translated by Wyatt Mason
R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of Pierre Michon’s most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple of Piero della Francesca.   Michon focuses on particular moments when artist and model collide, whether that model is a person or a landscape, inner or outer. In the five separate tales he evokes the full passion of the artist’s struggle to capture the world in images even as the world resists capture. Each story is a small masterpiece that transcends national boundaries and earns its place among the essential works of world literature.

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