The Illuminations
Arthur; Donald Revell Rimbaud author Donald Revell translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Omnidawn Publishing
Published:1st May '09
£12.00
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With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences, this new translation offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory surrealism, and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaud's esteemed position. As a major poet renowned for his strangely seductive power and innocence, Rimbaud was a dangerous and exhilarating force whose break with literary forms and conventions is aptly displayed in this volume. Published with the French on facing pages and an insightful afterword, this compilation plunges into the heart of Rimbaud's mysterious, revelatory beauty. This is a lucid and lively translation of a seminal work that remains essential and relevant to this day.
"What distinguishes Revell's [translation of The Illuminations ] is its exquisite, carefully modulated musicality ... in perfect keeping with the protean, inestimably influential original, making this among the finest of its English translations yet produced." --Publishers Weekly "What a blessing to be given Donald Revell's revelling again in the work of Rimbaud, this time in The Illuminations , Rimbaud's ecstatic vision of life on earth and its end. His 'further gospel' (following that of Jesus of Nazareth) proclaims not hope, but happiness. And all in Revell's brilliantly buoyant natural language, and, as in A Season in Hell , the gift of his risky and devoted Translator's Afterword." --Jean Valentine, poet "I have yet to come across a better living translator working in French today, and I wholeheartedly recommend Revell's translations to francophone and English-speaking readers alike." --Prick of the Spindle Web Magazine
ISBN: 9781890650360
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120 pages