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| Title | : | A Season in Hell |
| Author | : | Arthur Rimbaud |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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 * Also in my blog.
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| Original Title: | Une saison en enfer |
| ISBN: | 0821224581 (ISBN13: 9780821224588) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 3260 Users | 243 ReviewsColumn Based On Books A Season in Hell
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".Sometimes I'll have a week when I just can't find a lighted path through life; stuck choosing between activities that just don't make it worse and activities that almost definitely will.Choose to keep running, keep your health up.Choose to eat well and try to get your 7 hours.Choose to avoid sarcasm when possible.Choose not to nap in the afternoon.Choose not to wallow in beer or the like.Choose not to read A Season in Hell & Other Poems (or anything else that makes you think too much about
I know of no other translator who has captured Rimbaud's youthful voice: Donald Revell is the first. While there are several beautiful translations of A Season in Hell--Paul Schmidt and Wyatt Mason have both produced excellent versions--the voice is always that of a middle aged man, not of a boy in his late teens.With Revell's transation, we have that voice, and it is amazing to feel the energy and the freshness of this French monolith when an innocence is maintained. Perhaps some of the success
I never have the right words to express how much I love and relate to this man, how each and every word uttered by him compels me to become part of his notions, raw sensations for the mentally bewildered, the saddest soul and he now belongs to me, in all ways possible! I read him over, and over again, perhaps for the rest of my life
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
Hard to describe. Disturbing and comforting at the same time. Pure emotion pouring off the pages.
I find Rimbaud's writing rather sophomoric and bland. I wish I had read him at a much younger age.
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