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A Season in Hell Hardcover – February 1, 1998

by Arthur Rimbaud (Author), Robert Mapplethorpe (Photographer), Paul Schmidt (Translator)
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Presents the French and English texts of Rimbaud's major prose poem about the passion of suffering
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  1. Print length
    95 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bulfinch
  4. Publication date
    February 1, 1998
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.38 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0821224581
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0821224588
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This book brings together two of the most notorious artistic rebels of their respective eras, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) and Robert Mapplethorpe. Rimbaud wrote most of his work as a teenager, then renounced poetry to pursue an adventurous but unprofitable career as a soldier, coffee trader, and gun runner. The controversial and highly regarded photographer Robert Mapplethorpe earned acclaim during the late 1980s for his nudes, portraits, and still lifes. Books with Bulfinch are: Robert Mapplethorpe (1988), Some Women (1989) and Flowers (1990). Paul Schmidt has translated the complete works of Rimbaud as well as selected works of Chekhov, Pushkin and other Russian authors.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bulfinch; Reprint edition (February 1, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 95 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0821224581
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0821224588
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.38 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) was a French poet who is known for his contributions to the Symbolist movement. Born in the small town of Charleville-Mézières, Rimbaud wrote the majority of his literary works during a five-year period between late-adolescence and early adulthood, including his major collections Une Saison en Enfer (1873) and Les Illuminations (1886). Both titles were translated into English by Bertrand Mathieu and published by BOA Editions in 1973.

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Autumn Kearney
5.0 out of 5 stars An edition good enough for gift giving
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2007
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There are several editions of this book published. They have been thoroughly reviewed, so I will just review this edition, not the material itself.

As you can see by the photograph, it has a red cover and black spine. On the front cover and the title page there is a picture of a shirtless horned man. This book contains black and white photographs, by Robert Mapplethorpe, placed just about at the beginning of every section. I do not like them and I think they are a distraction from the text.

This is a very well constructed book. The pages are made out of a high grade thick paper. On the left side of the book is the original text in French. On the right side is the translation in English, which is done by Paul Schmidt. Since I can not read French, I completely enjoyed the English version.
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Guillermo Maynez
5.0 out of 5 stars The hell within
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2001
These are the brilliant and mystical hallucinations of the original "enfant terrible" and his visionary raptures about poetry, innocence and guilt. Verbal deliriums suffused with pain and hatred, remorse and desperation, but also with a parodic, pathetic and fatalistic megalomania. The "mystical rage" transformed into pyromaniac wording. Poems in prose, of very high quality, which reflect the fury of the love-hate relationship of Rimbaud with life and Universe.
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TheNazz
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Hardback Book.
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2019
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I needed to replace on old paperback copy of "A Season in Hell" that was falling apart. This version is printed on a heavy stock that should last a long time. One thing I did do was take a pocket knife and scratch off the gold leaf "Mapplethorpe" on the cover and spine. I found it laughable the Mapplethorpe thought his name deserved to be on the cover of such an iconic book.
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Nathaniel Avery
4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2003
This is a brilliant encapsulation of the rage of the artist. He has a contempt for mankind, society, it's progress, and yet can't escape society. He can be a "..." as artists where called back then, refuse to live a middle class existence, live a life of drunken debauchery, and yet that is just another societal role.
His imagery is powerful, his language self-deprecating and insanely sincere. It draws you in with its suffering.
At the end he finds his life as an artist, his passion, empty. It all ended with the gunshot to the hand that ended his affair with Verlaine. In short, he equates his artistry and homosexual affairs with hell, and a return to society redemption. This explains how he became a materialist later on in his life, a trader, even considering trading slaves.
It is a sad fate for someone who had such a poetic gift.
I still enjoy reading A Season In Hell, even after having read it many times. Ultimately, the work is flawed; it has a little too much affected insanity, angst, the sign of an adolescent work, but it is also full of pure poetry and promise.
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