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Title	:	Illuminations
Author	:	Arthur Rimbaud
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	January 17th 1957 by New Directions (first published 1875)
Categories	:	Poetry. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century

Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

Rating: 4.37 | 10154 Users | 305 Reviews

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The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varèse. Mrs. Varèse first published her versions of Rimbaud’s Illuminations in 1946. Since then she has revised her work and has included two poems which in the interim have been reclassified as part of Illuminations. This edition also contains two other series of prose poems, which include two poems only recently discovered in France, together with an introduction in which Miss Varèse discusses the complicated ins and outs of Rimbaldien scholarship and the special qualities of Rimbaud’s writing. Rimbaud was indeed the most astonishing of French geniuses. Fired in childhood with an ambition to write, he gave up poetry before he was twenty-one. Yet he had already produced some of the finest examples of French verse. He is best known for A Season in Hell, but his other prose poems are no less remarkable. While he was working on them he spoke of his interest in hallucinations––"des vertiges, des silences, des nuits." These perceptions were caught by the poet in a beam of pellucid, and strangely active language which still lights up––now here, now there––unexplored aspects of experience and thought.

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Original Title:	Illuminations
ISBN:	0811201848 (ISBN13: 9780811201841)
Edition Language:	English

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Sad, sad, sad. Ashbery is a magnificent poet in his own right, but has wholly butchered this translation of Rimbaud. With the French-and-English bitext herein, it is easy to see that J.A. is lacking in his knowledge of the French language. Everything is denoted far too literally, with Rimbaud's sentence structures adopting the grammatical stylings of an automatically-translated French-to-English text. Kinder reviewers than I have rendered this edition as "meticulously faithful [...] Ashberys

'Ô journées enfantes! Le corps un trésor à prodiguer.' -Saint Arthur, 'Jeunesse'Haven't peeked the Ashbery translation yet. Hopefully such an act will be pursued before the desolation of this idyll comedy I call 'life.'---First read: Summer 2015Re-read: 12 Jan 2017Re-re-read: eternity



Illuminations, Arthur RimbaudIlluminations is an incompleted suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in La Vogue (fr), a Paris literary review, in MayJune 1886. The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title Les Illuminations proposed by the poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's former lover. In his preface, Verlaine explained that the title was based on the English word illuminations, in the sense of

Illuminations remains one of the most compelling, influential and groundbreaking works of literature I've ever encountered. And yes, I am also staggered that this was written by somebody so young.Concise and expansive, fluid and intricate, imaginative and original, immense, kaleidoscopic, soaring into heights that not many others are able to reach. What more can one add that hasn't been said already? This really is the real deal. Bravo!

It is not that the book is not well written: the words flow like lava and burn everything in their way... It is the images those words form, that is not appealing in my case... The vision portrayed by the author is far too psychedelic for my taste... Reading these Illuminations, one has the feeling of an openness directly into a sort of unknown chaos: all language becomes little more than a tool through which the author informs his readers about his inner hell...Beautiful as some sentences are,

Frankly, I do not know why I still bother with poetry. It is not, and apparently never will be a favourable genre of mine. Unjust rating, perhaps; but this very much resembles plain text to me.