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A Season in Hell & Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud Wyatt Mason

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English
Modern Library Inc
15 November 2005
Rimbaud's essential prose masterpiece in ""Wyatt Mason's now-definitive translation.

Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason

""The definitive translation for our time."" -Edward Hirsch

From Dante's Inferno to Sartre's No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell-written when the poet was nineteen-provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.

As a companion to Rimbaud's journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason's new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud's tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power.

This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud's life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations. With A Season in Hell, they cement Rimbaud's reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.
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Imprint:   Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   218g
ISBN:   9780679643272
ISBN 10:   0679643273
Series:   Modern Library Classics
Pages:   240
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor of Harper's magazine, where his essays regularly appear. He also writes for The London Review of Books and The New Republic. The Modern Library has published his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud in two volumes. His translations of Dante's Vita Nuova and Montaigne's Essais are in progress.

Reviews for A Season in Hell & Illuminations

""'Exceptional....gloriously revealing. It is a monumental achievement....A book to treasure' - Scotland on Sunday""


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