I Promise to be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Rimbaud Complete Volume 2)

Rimbaud, Arthur (ed. /Wyatt Mason)

ISBN 10: 067964301X / ISBN 13: 9780679643012

Editore: The Modern Library, New York, 2003

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• Titolo: I Promise to be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Rimbaud Complete Volume 2)
• Editore: The Modern Library, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 067964301X
• ISBN 13: 9780679643012
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
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Riassunto

The first definitive collection of correspondence by the acclaimed author in English sheds new light on the enigmatic poet, as it reflects on topics ranging from the essence of art and his period as a visionary rebel, to his self-imposed exile in Africa and the Middle East. 20,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore

The poetic genius of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) blossomed early and burned briefly. Nearly all of his work was composed when he was in his teens. During the century following his death at thirty-seven, Rimbaud’s work and life have influenced generations of readers and writers. Radical in its day, Rimbaud’s writing took some of the first and most fundamental steps toward the liberation of poetry from the formal constraints of its history, and now represents one of the most powerful and enduring bodies of poetic expression in human history.

Wyatt Mason has translated the works of various contemporary French writers, and has been a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. His translation of Arthur Rimbaud’s poetical and prose works, Rimbaud Complete, appeared in 2002 from the Modern Library. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Times. He was named a fellow of the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for 2003–2004. His current projects include a new translation of Dante’s La Vita Nuova, for the Modern Library. He is also at work on a translation of the essays of Michel de Montaigne.