New Releases by Arthur Rimbaud

"Uma temporada no inferno" é uma obra em prosa poética que narra uma intensa jornada de crise espiritual, sofrimento e autoconhecimento. Escrita após um período conturbado da vida do autor, a obra apresenta um narrador que revisita suas experiências, ilusões e fracassos, questionando valores morais, religiosos e artísticos. Em tom confessional e visionário, o texto alterna revolta, ironia e reflexão, explorando temas como liberdade, desejo, culpa e transformação. Considerada um marco da literatura moderna, a obra destaca-se pela linguagem inovadora e pela ruptura com as formas tradicionais de expressão poética.

ARTHUR RIMBAUD: SELECTED POEMS Edited and translated by Andrew Jary Illustrated, with a newly revised text for this edition. With the French text and an English translation. These new versions of searing lyricism will delight lovers of poetry. Andrew Jary has selected the most representative pieces by the whirlwind poet, including ''The Drunken Boat'', ''Memory'', and healthy chunks of A Season in Hell and Illuminations. Jary has produced clear, unfussy translations of Rimbaud''s fiery verse. For a time, when he was a teenager until he was 19, art was crucial for the psychic well-being of the restless Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). The young would-be rebel Rimbaud escaped from the bland provincial town of Charleville in Northern France to wander the streets of Paris in poverty. After writing his Illuminations and A Season in Hell, some of the most extraordinary poems of all world literature, Rimbaud renounced it all for a hellish and apparently boring life in Aden. ''Mortel, ange ET demon, autant dire Rimbaud, '' as Rimbaud''s lover, Paul Verlaine wrote (''Mortal, angel AND demon, that is to say Rimbaud''.) Arthur Rimbaud is the tornado of world poetry. He out-blasts just about every other poet. For poets, he is more significant than the so-called ''founding fathers'' or influential philosophers of modern times: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Einstein. For poets, he is ''everybody''s favourite hippy'', a Communard, a ''precursor of the current movement of subversion of Western notions of self, society, and discourse'', and a savage mystic. Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most authentically rebellious of modern poets. Other poets have written of rebellion and radical action, but Rimbaud is one of the very few who actually carried it out (and didn''t sound like an idiot when he spoke of it). Picture the young poet in his mid-teens, utterly bored by the living deaths of suburban life, aching to run away to Paris. Though he was dragged back a number of times, Rimbaud''s life after his early teens was never again centred in his homeland. True, he returned to his mother, family and homeland, but his true heartland, his landscape of the soul, was elsewhere. Rimbaud was ever a poet of elsewhere, the other place, displacement. He was always another person: ''Je est un autre (I is an other). He rebelled partly for the joy of rebellion. His early poetry is marked by an extraordinary virulence and anger. Illuminations and A Season in Hell, his major works, are also powered by an immense anger - a cosmic anger, a psycho-cultural-spiritual turmoil. Introduction, bibliography and notes. Includes 3 pages of new illustrations. www.crmoon.com

Explorez les abysses de l''âme humaine avec "Une Saison en Enfer" d''Arthur Rimbaud, un recueil de poèmes d''une intensité saisissante où la souffrance, la révolte et la quête de sens se rencontrent dans un tourbillon de passion et de désespoir. Préparez-vous à plonger dans l''univers tourmenté et visionnaire d''un des poètes les plus emblématiques de la littérature française. Suivez le voyage tumultueux de l''auteur alors qu''il explore les profondeurs de son être et les tumultes de sa conscience. À travers une série de poèmes d''une beauté brute et d''une sincérité déchirante, Rimbaud nous invite à partager ses tourments intérieurs, ses aspirations brisées et ses rêves avortés. Arthur Rimbaud tisse un récit poétique d''une puissance inouïe, où les mots se transforment en incantations et les vers en cris de désespoir. À travers une langue incandescente et des images frappantes, il nous plonge dans un univers d''angoisse et de fascination, où la quête de vérité et de beauté se heurte à l''obscurité de l''existence humaine. "Une Saison en Enfer" n''est pas seulement un recueil de poèmes, c''est un cri de révolte et de désespoir, mais aussi un hymne à la liberté et à la créativité. Les poèmes tour à tour déchirants, provocateurs et visionnaires de Rimbaud continuent de fasciner et d''inspirer les lecteurs du monde entier, défiant les conventions et explorant les limites de l''expression artistique. Critiquement acclamé depuis sa publication, "Une Saison en Enfer" reste un chef-d''œuvre de la poésie française, dont l''influence se fait sentir encore aujourd''hui dans la littérature et l''art contemporains. Son exploration audacieuse des profondeurs de l''âme humaine en fait une œuvre intemporelle, qui résonne avec une vérité universelle. Ne manquez pas cette occasion de plonger dans l''univers poétique et tourmenté d''Arthur Rimbaud. Laissez-vous emporter par la force émotionnelle de ses mots, la profondeur de sa vision et la beauté de son langage, dans un voyage au cœur de l''âme humaine. Obtenez votre exemplaire dès maintenant et découvrez pourquoi "Une Saison en Enfer" continue de fasciner et d''émerveiller les lecteurs depuis plus d''un siècle.

Les Oeuvres Complètes de Rimbaud est un recueil qui encapsule la diversité et la profondeur de la poésie de l''un des plus grands poètes du XIXe siècle. Le style littéraire de Rimbaud se caractérise par un langage audacieux et une innovation formelle, usant de jeux de mots, de métaphores saisissantes et d''une musicalité omniprésente. Son contexte littéraire est marqué par le mouvement symboliste, mais il s''en affranchit en préfigurant des courants modernes. Les poèmes, allant des mots simples à l''expression complexe de ses visions, révèlent la richesse de son imagination et son rapport fébrile avec le monde, oscillant entre le rêve et la réalité. Arthur Rimbaud, né en 1854, est souvent considéré comme un poète visionnaire et rebelle. Sa vie tumultueuse et sa quête incessante de sensations nouvelles ont façonné ses écrits. Très jeune, il s''éloigne des conventions littéraires et sociales de son époque, cherchant activement à explorer les limites de l''expression poétique. Son impétuosité et son besoin de liberté transparaissent dans ses œuvres, bien que Rimbaud se retire de la scène littéraire à seulement 21 ans, laissant derrière lui un héritage indélébile. Je recommande Les Oeuvres Complètes de Rimbaud à quiconque souhaite plonger dans l''essence même de la poésie moderne. La richesse de ses textes et la force de ses idées en font une lecture indispensable pour comprendre l''évolution de la poésie. Chaque poème offre un nouveau monde à explorer, et la puissance évocatrice de son écriture saura captiver à la fois les amateurs de poésie et les néophytes.

Arthur Rimbaud was an infamous legend in his own time, a young boy-genius who changed the face of modern poetry forevermore with his groundbreaking, horrific and surreal vision of A Season in Hell. His lifestyle, up until his twentieth year, was one of a vagabond poet, a sexual libertine, and a young man whose roaring talent burned out before his twentieth year. Dying tragically at the age of 37, Rimbaud has come to exemplify what it means to be an explorer on the outer edges of artistic experimentation and excess. This small book of his collected poems and essays on his life is meant as a dedication to a man whose shadow looms large over the span of the centuries, and who, as Sartre once said of Jean Genet, was "rotten with genius." A "divine brat," indeed.

Ce recueil est constitué de 8 poèmes en prose précédés d’une courte introduction qui est elle-même un poème. Par ailleurs Rimbaud cite quelques-uns de ses poèmes versifiés plus anciens dans la 4ème pièce du recueil : Alchimie du verbe. Rédigé en 1873 à la suite d’une grave crise, Une saison en enfer est une sorte d’autobiographie poétique qui relate ce que Rimbaud considère alors comme des errances dans sa vie et sa recherche artistique : des « délires », la fascination de la folie, le mépris de toute morale et une universelle révolte.

A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France''s infamous rebel poet, in a bilingual edition Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, Rimbaud had written a series of poems that are not only masterpieces in themselves but that forever transformed the idea of what poetry is. Without him, surrealism is inconceivable, and his influence is palpable in artists as diverse as Henry Miller, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, and Patti Smith. In this essential volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud’s major poems and letters, including generous selection of Illuminations and the entirety of his lacerating confession A Season in Hell—capturing as never before not only the meaning but also the daredevil attitudes and incantatory rhythms that make Rimbaud’s works among the most perpetually modern of his or any other generation. This bilingual edition includes the original French versions of each poem.

Arthur Rimbaud è un mito nero e eterno: passato, presente e futuro del mondo a rovescio. A diciott''anni ha trascorso Una stagione all''inferno, nel baratro del proprio essere, nell''abisso dell''esistenza, dove nessuno mai ha osato tanto. In lui sono la follia e il genio del maledetto, del punk, di tutto ciò che la norma rifiutava ieri, calpesta oggi e disprezza domani; in lui si è riconosciuta una rivoluzionaria come Patti Smith, che qui introduce la Stagione e ne porta alla luce la forza negli anni mai sopita, mostrando quanto l''arte sia sempre stata, e sempre sarà, qualcosa che scuote dalle profondità della terra la pace posticcia della superficie. Edgardo Franzosini traduce ex novo il testo, scrivendo una versione conclusiva che ci invita a cercare Rimbaud non in cielo con gli occhi puntati verso l''alto, ma giù, nel fango, dove scavando con le unghie possiamo rinvenire la gemma ardente della sua poesia.

A Season in Hell is an extended poem written and published by French writer Arthur Rimbaud. The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, for example the Surrealists. Henry Miller was important in introducing Rimbaud to America in the sixties. He once attempted an English translation of the book and wrote an extended essay on Rimbaud and A Season in Hell titled The Time of the Assassins. The poem is loosely divided into nine parts, some of which are much shorter than others. They differ markedly in tone and narrative comprehensibility, with some, such as "Bad Blood," ''being much more obviously influenced by Rimbaud''s drug use than others, some argue. Academic critics have arrived at many varied and often entirely incompatible conclusions as to what meaning and philosophy may or may not be contained in the text, and will continue to do so.

"To each being, several other lives seemed due." -Arthur Rimbaud Having closely studied and admired the visionary masterpieces of 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud for years, Christopher Bakka has translated them for himself. Born from a desire to deeply engage with the original French texts and to apprehend, as clearly as is possible, the words that Rimbaud wrote, these translations of A Season in Hell and The Illuminations are free from the wildly creative liberties in diction and syntax that make most translations of Rimbaud unreliable. Pure translation, is, of course, impossible, especially where poetry is concerned; devoted readers of Rimbaud, therefore, are encouraged to engage with the music and ambiguity of the poet''s original French, presented here en face.

Den moderne poesis enfant terrible, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), frembragte de fleste af sine mesterværker, før han blev tyve.Illuminationer blev angiveligt skrevet mellem 1871-78 og blev første gang trykt i tidsskriftet La Vogue i 1886. Disse prosadigte, toogfyrre i alt, med deres overraskende metaforer som for eksempel »den gyldne solnedgangs tungsindige storvask«, bryder med den dengang herskende poetiks regler ved at lade det banale, vulgære og grusomme indgå en forbindelse med det sublime. Illuminationer er et forsøg på at integrere verden som en total vision, det ultimative billede af alt, hvad der er til, eller som kan tænkes at være til, i en alkymistisk proces, hvor poeten også sætter sit eget jeg i spil.Lyrikeren Erik Knudsen har på imponerende vis gendigtet Rimbauds prosadigte Illuminationer.Lars Bonnevie, Weekendavisen, skrev blandt andet følgende om oversættelsen:”Man mærker tydeligt strømmen passere på en kongenial måde mellem Knudsen og Rimbaud (...) Illuminationer er indgangsporten til den moderne poesi, herunder også til den modernisme, som den tidlige Erik Knudsen selv var inspireret af, og de farvelagte billeder står friske og prægnante i hans gendigtning, som om de var lavet i dag. Svimlende smukt og grænseløst foruroligende.”

Una temporada en el infierno (Une saison en enfer, en francés) es un largo poema en prosa escrito alrededor de 1873 por el poeta francés Arthur Rimbaud. Es la única obra publicada por Rimbaud personalmente e incluso, dada la escasa difusión de la misma y el posterior abandono de la literatura, se piensa que la escribió para sí. Recurrió a un impresor inglés para que le publicara cien copias de las cuales repartió unas seis entre algunos amigos (entre quienes está Verlaine) y el resto fueron dejadas en el sótano de la editorial. El resto de la edición fue encontrado a principios del siglo XX por un crítico francés.Se trata de una obra fundamental de la literatura, rescatada y valorada con posterioridad. Se pueden apreciar como hypotextos "La Divina Comedia" de Dante, La Biblia o "Fausto" de Goethe.

"Poésies complètes" de Arthur Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud, poète français (1854-1891).

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.

Nous en avons de la chance ! En deux lettres écrites à deux jours d’intervalle, Rimbaud nous expose sa théorie poétique dans les "Lettres du Voyant". Quand on pense qu’il y en a qui écrivent des volumes pour théoriser, que dis-je, terroriser, la poésie au lieu de la faire ! En deux coups de plume, Rimbaud nous réapprend tout, sur tout : être moderne, être visionnaire, ne pas mettre des fers aux pieds des nouvelles idées, assez du classicisme, du romantisme, c’est par le dérèglement de tous les sens que l’on retrouve son sens commun, il n’y a d’avenir que dans le départ, soyons voyants.

Après avoir publié en 1873 "Une Saison en enfer", Arthur Rimbaud rompt avec la littérature et avec l''Europe, vit quelque temps comme commerçant et trafiquant d''armes au Harar, revient en 1891 en France où il meurt à Marseille après amputation d''une jambe. "Les Illuminations", sa somme poétique, seront publiées après sa mort.

One of the world''s most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt''s acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans'' New Year," "After the Flood," and "A Season in Hell." Complete Works is divided into eight "seasons"—Childhood, the Open Road, War, the Tormented Heart, the Visionary, the Damned Soul, a Few Belated Cowardices, and the Man with the Wind at His Heels—that reflect the facets of Rimbaud''s life. Insightful commentary by Schmidt reveals the courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud''s poetry and sheds light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters.

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.

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe''s most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.

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.

From the Publisher: Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about fifteen and twenty-one, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world. In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa. Out of this brief, colorful life and wilderness of sensory poetry, a mythic Rimbaud has been created. One of the greatest French poets of all times, Rimbaud has become an enduring icon of youth, rebellion, and freedom-though behind the myth of the man lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigor, poignant yet heroic. This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbaud''s poems, with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns.

''The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. . .'' Rimbaud was sixteen when he made this famous declaration. By 1886, then thirty-two and an explorer, trader and slave-trader on the Red Sea, he had absolutely no interest in the fate or success of the poetry infused with mysticism, alchemy and magic that he had written in his teens. That same year, in Paris, Les Illuminations was being published as the work of ''the late'' Arthur Rimbaud, first in a Symbolist periodical and then in book form, with an Introduction by his former lover, Verlaine. Seldom has a writer''s vision of changing the world through words failed so spectacularly as did Rimbaud''s. That failure turned him into an incomparable tragic poet: not only ''a wild undisciplined genius, a mystic philosopher and thinker, an inspired poet'' but also, according to Enid Starkie, ''one of the most finished artists . . . a supreme master of prosody and style''. This Penguin Classic reproduces the text of the Pléiade edition, 1954, with selected letters and prose translations that have been highly acclaimed.