A Season In Hell - Rilegato

Rimbaud, Arthur

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0821224581 ISBN 13: 9780821224588

Casa editrice: Little, Brown US, 2005

Riassunto

Written by Arthur Rimbaud at age eighteen in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, A SEASON IN HELL has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists and lovers for more than a century. Imbued with a hallucinatory intensity, this confessional prose poem is an account of a hellish journey beyond the bounds of society - and the attempt to find a way back.

Based on an edition first published in 1986, this stunning volume presents Rimbaud's poem in both the original French and an English translation - and opens each of the poems eight sections with a dazzling photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe that brilliantly complements the poems shifting moods. These images by one of the most notorious contemporary photographers underline the striking modernity of Rimbaud's great work - and makes this a perfect gift for friends, lovers and fans of either artist.

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Recensione:

A vigorous book (Mary Margaret McCabe, TLS)

The strangest thing about A SEASON IN HELL is that, even though it is a meticulous catalogue of her descent into this other, diminished, way of life ... it ends up being immensely cheering (Maureen Freely, GUARDIAN)

The struggle to assert control over chaos, and the painful realisation that your former life can never be resumed, is a powerful theme of the book (Julie Wheelwright, INDEPENDENT)

An awesome testament to the bravery of a woman who manages to defy a supposedly unbeatable disease. (BIG ISSUE)

Descrizione del libro:

* This striking gift book brings together the work of two incendiary geniuses and social outlaws - Arthur Rimbaud and Robert Mapplethorpe

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• Editore: Little, Brown US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0821224581
• ISBN 13: 9780821224588
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 96