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

Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

Rating: 4.37 | 10154 Users | 305 Reviews

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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

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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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'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

I doubt my own worthiness to review such sublime material. Although I usually avoid deifying literature, what Rimbaud does here is not the stuff of mortals. He truly is the only one capable of the savage slideshow he presents here as illuminations. Sheer brilliance, this. It's such a shame that I do not have a working knowledge of French to read the original but Ashberry seems to have done as stellar job with the translation. Recommended reading for anyone and everyone who chooses to rise above

A series of hallucinatory prose poems full of surreal images and turns of phrase. In arresting detail the work lends voice to the poets fantasies and nightmares, violently cycling between self loathing and grandeur, euphoria and despair. So often the works opaque and lines lend themselves to multiple readings, inviting rereading.

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

Stars seem difficult here (for translation? for R or A or both?), because I read another translation of *Illuminations* some time ago, and remember feeling like I was reading a translation. But Ashbery's Rimbaud is something quite different, more immediate, and perhaps one way of living out "I is someone else" ("Je est un autre.") To reference lines I'll use "R/A" (Resident Assistant? Recycled Author?).In "Historic Evening" R/A bemoans the Romantic hangover: "...it's no longer possible to submit

Haunting and surreal - resonates in the hollowness we all try to fill.

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.