Written by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century.
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"Remains the best and most accessible bi-lingual edition of Rimbaud's two central books of poetry. Price is attractive."--Thomas J. Hines, Kent State University
"Peschel's translation must stand as the best English version...that has yet been published, and I expect that it will be standard for a long time."--Virginia La Charite, Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"Peschel's translation must stand as the best English version...that has yet been published, and I expect that it will be standard for a long time."--Virginia La Charite, Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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crappy kindle format,
By Susan E. Russell (Yarmouthport, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Season in Hell and The Illuminations (Galaxy Books) (Kindle Edition)
I bought this book on the kindle, and was extremely dissappointed t find that the format was mucked up. The translations and the original french in the hard copy of the book lie on opposite pages; in the kindle format, the french and the english are interspersed and the poems are completely unreadable.
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bad quality edition,
By Cuca Pipoca "Cuca Pipoca" (Săo Paulo, Brasil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Season in Hell and The Illuminations (Galaxy Books) (Kindle Edition)
this is a bilingual edition but the lines in French and in English are all entangled in a way that is impossible to read with a minimum of fluidity. Remember, this is a poetry book, so rythm is most important, which is completely lost in this lousy format!
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Rimbaud the Great in a Poor Translation,
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Rimbaud's crackling poetic prose and gorgeous poetry is full of inventive energy in French: in this translator's English, it is flat, stilted, awkward and energyless. If you read French, the book's OK, because you have the original on facing pages. But if you read French, why buy this?
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Born on October 20, 1854, Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud grew up in Charleville (Ardennes), a town in northeastern France near the Belgian border. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, French Cultural Services, Paul Verlaine, Ernest Delahaye, Holy Land, Une Saison New!
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Born on October 20, 1854, Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud grew up in Charleville (Ardennes), a town in northeastern France near the Belgian border. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, French Cultural Services, Paul Verlaine, Ernest Delahaye, Holy Land, Une Saison New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud on 14 pages
- Season in Hell by Marilyn French on 7 pages
- Les illuminations by Rimbaud on page 17, and page 27
- White Buildings by Hart Crane on page 19
- The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud on page 6
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- Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl in Front Matter
- The Ultimate Doors Companion by Doug Sundling in Back Matter
- Modern Theories of Performance: From Stanislavski to Boal by Jane Milling on page 91
- Modern Theories of Performance: From Stanislavski to Boal by Jane Milling on page 90
- The Extravagant: Crossings Of Modern Poetry And Modern Philosophy by Robert Baker in Front Matter
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