A Season in Hell

Une Season en Enfer (usually translated as A Season in Hell ) is a relatively small collection of short texts in lyrical prose interspersed with Versgedichten. It comes from the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) and was built from April to August 1873 (ie at the age of 19 years ) in the village of Roche ( Ardennes ) in the rural home of his mother.

It is the only work that Rimbaud himself gave to the pressure, but it remained virtually unpublished, because he did not pay the commissioned from him the Brussels printer and the small edition, except for a few specimens that he gave friends, such as Paul Verlaine, lay the camp of the print shop where they, that is, was posthumously discovered in 1901.

The text of the booklet clearly reflect a crisis situation contrary: Rimbaud came in September 1871 at the invitation of the slightly older fellow poet Verlaine with high hopes to Paris, where he had initially also admired in literary circles excited. In February 1872, he had been but virtually banished from Paris, after he had become involved with the newly married and has just become father Verlaine on a homosexual relationship and otherwise caused some annoyance. In the summer he was finally moved back to Paris and then went with Verlaine on a restless wanderings in northern France, Belgium and England, which was marked by quarrels, quarrels and reconciliations of friends. In April 73 he was among hatched with his mother and his brothers and sisters in Rochester, where he apparently fell into a depression, which he tried to dispel by letter.

In the generically hardly be classified, often obscure texts, the more I look illogical as logically associating referierend on his past returns and takes just leaps and bounds his presence to target. In the form of a mixture of retrospect, confession, self-talk, report, reflection, action and self-accusation Rimbaud breaks disillusioned with his previous poetic and other ambitions, which now appear to him as hubris and self-deception. Une Season en Enfer / A Season in Hell because he also titled the finished ribbon that appears in some passages, such as the revocation of an almost haughty seer - Letter of May 1871 where he intended to some extent to reinvent the seal.

Content

  • Prologue ( Jadis, si je me souviens bien ...)
  • Bad Blood ( Mauvais Sang )
  • Night of Hell ( Nuit de l' enfer )
  • Delirium I ( Délires I)
  • Delirium II alchemy of the word ( Délires II)
  • The Impossible (L' Impossible )
  • The flash (L' éclair )
  • Tomorrow ( Matin )
  • Adieu ( Farewell )
  • Literary work
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( French)
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