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Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
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Description for Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition
Paperback. Retaining the first edition's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse - after correcting errors and reordering poems - this edition also contains a foreword that considers the heritage of the first edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books. Translator(s): Fowlie, Wallace. Num Pages: 496 pages, 6halftones, 7line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 724.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226719771
SKU
V9780226719771
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About Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Wallace Fowlie (1908-98) was the James B. Duke Professor of French Literature at Duke University. He was the author or translator of thirty books, including Rimbaud: A Critical Study and Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet. Seth Whidden is assistant professor of French at Villanova University and coeditor-in-chief of Parade sauvage, the scholarly journal of Rimbaud studies.
Reviews for Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition
"This handsome edition, which makes France's most remarkable poet readily available in the U.S., may well be a literary landmark comparable to Baudelaire's introduction of Edgar Allan Poe in France a century earlier." - Anna Balakian, New York Times Book Review"