Title: Rimbaud : complete works, selected letters : a bilingual edition /
Authors: Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891; Fowlie, Wallace, 1908-; Whidden, Seth Adam, 1969-; Fowlie, Wallace, 1908-1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Rimbaud, Arthur, Translations into English.; Rimbaud, Arthur,; Poets, French Correspondence
Abstract: "The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose. The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated genius - among them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works. Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, Rimbaud remains the most authoritative - and now, completely up-to-date - edition of the young master's entire poetic ouvre." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005041859-d.html.
Contents: Poésies / Poetry. 1869. Les étrennes des orphelins / The orphans' gifts (New Year's) -- 1870. Sensation ; Soleil et chair / Sun and flesh ; Ophélie / Ophelia ; Venus Anadyomène / Venus Anadyomene ; Première soirée / The first evening ; Les reparties de Nina / Nina's replies ; "Morts de Quatre-vingt-douze ..." / "Dead of '92 ..." ; Les effarés / The frightened ones ; Roman / Novel ; Rêvé pour l'hiver / A dream for winter ; Le buffet / The cupboard ; L'éclatante victoire de Sarrebrück / The dazzling victory of Sarrebruck ; Le maline / The sly girl ; Au Cabaret-Vert / At the Cabaret-Vert ; Le dormeur du val / The sleeper in the valley ; À la musique / To music ; Bal des pendus / Dance of the hanged men ; Le châtiment de Tartufe / Tartufe's punishment ; Le forgeron / The blacksmith ; Ma bohème (Fantaisie) / My Bohemian life (Fantasy) ; Le mal / Evil ; Rages de Césars / Caesars' rages -- Poèmes datés de 1871-début 1872 ou dans des lettres de mai ou juin 1871 / Poems dated 1871-early 1872 or in letters from May or June 1871. Le coeur volé / The stolen heart ; Chant de guerre parisien / Parisian war song ; Mes petites amoureuses / My little lovers ; Accroupissements / Squattings ; Les poètes de sept ans / Seven-year-old poets ; L'orgie parisienne ou Paris se repeuple / Parisian orgy or Paris is repopulated ; Les pauvres À l'église / The poor in church ; Les soeurs de charité / Sisters of Charity ; L'homme juste / The just man ; Les premières Communions / First Communions ; Ce qu'on dit au Poète à propos de fleurs / What is said to the poet concerning flowers ; Les mains de Jeanne-Marie / The hands of Jeanne-Marie.