Name: The Illuminations
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Author: Rimbaud, Arthur ; Revell, Donald
ISBN: 9781890650360

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arthur Rimbaud

Translated by

Donald Revell

Publisher

Omnidawn

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

1890650366

ISBN13

9781890650360

Synopsis "The Illuminations"

With perfect pitch for contemporary readers, Donald Revell's new translation of The Illuminations offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory surreality, and wit of the intimate particularity that secured Rimbaud's position as a major poet renowned for his strangely seductive power and innocence. Rimbaud was a dangerous and exhilarating force whose break with literary forms and conventions changed forever the way poems would be read and written. Published with the French on facing pages and with an insightful afterward by the translator, Donald Revell plunges readers into the heart of Rimbaud's mysterious, revelatory beauty. This lucid and lively translation of a seminal work will show current readers of English all the ways that Rimbaud's incandescence remains essential and relevant today.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (Charleville, 1854 - Marseille, 1891) was already considered a genius at just twenty years old thanks to some poems and lyrical prose that drew from his fierce and excessive lifestyle. His transgressive poetry and surreal themes influenced modern literature and arts, such as decadentism and the beat generation. Rimbaud was one of the leading figures of symbolism, the dominant trend in the second half of the 19th century often marked as the beginning of contemporary lyricism.

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