A Season in Hell. By Arthur Rimbaud.

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A Season in Hell is an extended poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French writer Arthur Rimbaud.

Bernard Mathieu describes A Season in Hell as “a terribly enigmatic poem”, and a “brilliantly near-hysterical quarrel between the poet and his ‘other’.”

The impact of Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry has been immense. His influence on the Surrealist movement has been widely acknowledged, and a host of poets have recognized their indebtedness to Rimbaud’s vision and technique. He was the enfant terrible of French poetry in the second half of the 19th century and a major figure in symbolism.

Rimbaud persuaded his mother to pay to have Une Saison en enfer published in Brussels in 1873. It is a diary of the damned that affords insights into his preoccupations, A Season in Hell is an intensely personal account of private torture and the search for a spiritual and an artistic resolution; a prose style studded with laconic formulae that are also seen in the one-liners of Les Illuminations; a sustained investigation of self, Christianity, and alternative spiritual and poetic options that is frequently lit up by the flare of Rimbaud’s memorable imagery.

  • Details

    Hardcover bound in green Italian Fedrigoni Imitlin
    Measures 100×160 mm
    120 gram red Endpapers
    Printed on 115 g wood free, age resistant Munken Premium Cream paper
    Sewn book block
    Black ribbon marker and Headbands

First Edition.

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Weight 0.7 lbs

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