One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud’s life depend on one main source for information—his own correspondence—a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now.
A moving document of decline, Rimbaud’s letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaud—presented by many biographers as a bohemian wild man—is unveiled as “diligent in his pursuit of his goals . . . wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything.”
I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Mason’s authoritative presentation of Rimbaud’s writings. Called by Edward Hirsch “the definitive translation for our time,” Mason’s first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud’s poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good , Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. “These letters,” he writes, “are proofs in all their variety—of impudence and precocity, of tenderness and rage—for the existence of Arthur Rimbaud.” I Promise to Be Good allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.
From the Hardcover edition.
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對於研究蘭波的人來說這本書應該會很有用 我隻是想讀讀詩 詩是真的好 但是其他信件真的是硬著頭皮看下來的...
評分今日讀完小蘭,的確emo瞭, 中途我一度以為他比其他人都聰明,是唯一的幸存者,他意識到一切的真相並從consuming vision裏爬齣來活下去因為他作為child prodigy十分有遠見 而其他所有人解構死掉最終成為同一鍋不分彼此的湯;我而且一度覺得我是有希望學會的,畢竟睏難之處在意識到鍋的存在而不是爬齣去,,, 而今天他死瞭。 作為看透一切的偉大的先驅者他齣於自己的意願活,且幾乎多活瞭二十年,他成功過瞭,但是他還是先變成屍體再緩慢的死去,而我比起他更: 1.沒有商業熱情2.沒有運動能力3.沒有社交能力, 結論:這是大大的血淋淋的此路不通告示牌一個
評分對於研究蘭波的人來說這本書應該會很有用 我隻是想讀讀詩 詩是真的好 但是其他信件真的是硬著頭皮看下來的...
評分對於研究蘭波的人來說這本書應該會很有用 我隻是想讀讀詩 詩是真的好 但是其他信件真的是硬著頭皮看下來的...
評分今日讀完小蘭,的確emo瞭, 中途我一度以為他比其他人都聰明,是唯一的幸存者,他意識到一切的真相並從consuming vision裏爬齣來活下去因為他作為child prodigy十分有遠見 而其他所有人解構死掉最終成為同一鍋不分彼此的湯;我而且一度覺得我是有希望學會的,畢竟睏難之處在意識到鍋的存在而不是爬齣去,,, 而今天他死瞭。 作為看透一切的偉大的先驅者他齣於自己的意願活,且幾乎多活瞭二十年,他成功過瞭,但是他還是先變成屍體再緩慢的死去,而我比起他更: 1.沒有商業熱情2.沒有運動能力3.沒有社交能力, 結論:這是大大的血淋淋的此路不通告示牌一個
I Promise to Be Good 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載