9780375757709-0375757708-Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library Classics)

Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library Classics)

ISBN-13: 9780375757709
ISBN-10: 0375757708
Edition: Reprint
Author: Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Modern Library
Format: Paperback 656 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780375757709
ISBN-10: 0375757708
Edition: Reprint
Author: Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: Modern Library
Format: Paperback 656 pages

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Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780375757709 and ISBN-10: 0375757708), written by authors Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason, was published by Modern Library in 2003. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.74.

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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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