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A Season in Hell

Arthur Rimbaud

Hardcover | Pages: 87 pages

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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

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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
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Original Title:	Une saison en enfer
ISBN:	0821224581 (ISBN13: 9780821224588)
Edition Language:	English

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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

note - I did not read from this edition but instead from Rimbaud CompleteI am not good with poetry. I am trying to learn how to be better with poetry but I have a mind for the material rather than the abstract. This was an interesting challenge that I most likely failed.

Just an astonishing collection considering Rimbaud's youth and relative inexperience in the world. That some one in his late teen years, basically age 16 to 19, could convey such depth of emotion and such a fiery personality just floors me. Talk about a rock star before rock stars existed!!!

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

It would be impossible to get a better edition than Bulfinch Press's. The pairing of Rimbaud's fiery poetry with Mapplethorpe's photographs is the perfect marriage en enfer for the demon bridegroom.

I am at an age where I ought to appreciate this book more. I should be able to revel in the ravings and howling of the semi-mad (or is he over-sane?) speaker. Yet though there are a few marvelous lines, and a couple of ideas worthy of musing upon, I find the overall book has much less art or philosophy or wit than its reputation insists. There are, on the other hand, a lot of bloody exclamation marks!