Poeta y aventurero francés que dejó de escribir verso a los 19 años, se convirtió en un mito inextricable de la vida gay francesa tras su temprana muerte. La poesía de Rimbaud, escrita en parte en verso libre, se define por su visión dramática e imaginativa, y el poeta declaraba que uno debe hacerse visionario. Sus obras se encuentran entre las más originales del movimiento simbolista. Su poema más célebre es una alegoría de una búsqueda espiritual, que representa el viaje de una embarcación.
Cette nouvelle traduction de "Une saison en enfer" par Juan Abeleira rapproche les lecteurs hispanophones de l'œuvre de Rimbaud. Grâce à des recherches récentes, Abeleira a affiné ses traductions, offrant un texte clair qui révèle les mystères de Rimbaud. D'autres œuvres du poète sont également disponibles dans cette collection.
Genio precoz y enfant terrible, Arthur Rimbaud compuso todos sus poemas antes de los veintiún años. A esa edad, dejó de escribir para viajar por el mundo, desempeñando todo tipo de trabajos. Enfermó gravemente y fue repatriado desde Yemen poco antes de morir a los treinta y siete años. Su poesía, a veces desafiante y profanadora, otras visionaria e incluso tierna, delicada y gentil, es fruto de la búsqueda de nuevas formas, que anticiparon el simbolismo y ejercieron una gran influencia en las vanguardias. La obra de Arthur Rimbaud es ese formidable meteorito que atraviesa el firmamento de la poesía de todos los tiempos y países, dejándonos primero sin habla, luego pasmados y perdidos en un mundo de inagotables conjeturas.
Incluido por Verlaine en su volumen de poetas malditos, Rimbaud llevo hasta sus ultimas consecuencias el desequilibro de los sentidos para emprender cualquier forma de amor, sufrimiento y ternura. Esta edicion ofrece las "Primeras Prosas," las "Prosas evangelicas" y "Una temporada en el Infierno," terminando con "Las iluminaciones."
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varese. Mrs. Varese first published her versions of Rimbaud's Illuminations in 1946. Since then she has revised her work and has included two poems which in the interim have been reclassified as part of Illuminations. This edition also contains two other series of prose poems, which include two poems only recently discovered in France, together with an introduction in which Miss Varese discusses the complicated ins and outs of Rimbaldien scholarship and the special qualities of Rimbaud's writing. Rimbaud was indeed the most astonishing of French geniuses. Fired in childhood with an ambition to write, he gave up poetry before he was twenty-one. Yet he had already produced some of the finest examples of French verse. He is best known for A Season in Hell, but his other prose poems are no less remarkable. While he was working on them he spoke of his interest in hallucinations--des vertiges, des silences, des nuits. These perceptions were caught by the poet in a beam of pellucid, and strangely active language which still lights up--now here, now there-- unexplored aspects of experience and thought.
A phenomenonally precocious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. This book sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a translation of his exhilarating poetry and a selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.
Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason “The definitive translation for our time.” –Edward Hirsch From Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self. As a companion to Rimbaud’s journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason’s new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud’s tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power. This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud’s life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations. With A Season in Hell, they cement Rimbaud’s reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.
Presents a new translation and a revised chronology along with a sketch of the poet's life.
