Rimbaud
Yves Bonnefoy
Language: English
Pages: 150
ISBN: 0061360171
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This is my scan. This was scanned with a flatbed scanner, so the quality is not as great as my other scans.
Note: this is not the flatbed scan that I was discussing on the forums.
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A comprehensive study on the life and poetics of Arthur Rimbaud.
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Yves Bonnefoy was born on June 24, 1923 in Tours. He studied mathematics, the history of science, and philosophy at the University of Poitiers and the Sorbonne. Later he worked for three years at the National Center for Scientific Research before devoting himself completely to writing and lecturing.
Bonnefoy’s first book of poems, On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, was published in 1953 and won him immediate recognition as a new, major voice. Three other books appeared at irregular intervals and were collected in one volume under the title of Poèmes. In 1987 he published In the Shadow’s Light, followed by Début et fin de la neige in 1991. Today he is acknowledged as the most outstanding and influential poet in France today.
Since 1954 Bonnefoy has also produced many works of literary and art criticism—Rimbaud, Un rêve fait à Mantoue, Rome 1630, Entretiens sur la poésie (Dialogues on Poetry). His translations of Shakespeare’s plays are considered the best to date, and two years ago he published his translation of some fifty poems by Yeats.
Over the past thirty years Bonnefoy has been a regular visitor to universities in the United States as professor of literature and lecturer, while holding occasional teaching posts at French universities as well. Since 1981 he has been the professor of comparative poetics at the Collège de France. He is the director of the collection Idées et Recherches at Flammarion, and the editor of Mythologies, now published in English by the University of Chicago Press. He is married to American painter Lucy Vines, and they have one daughter, Mathilde.
Last fall the Bibliothèque Nationale honored the poet with a large comprehensive exhibition of his manuscripts, first editions, and pictures.
Reading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands (Symploke Studies in Contemporary Theory)
Rimbaud (inédit) : Celui-là qui créera Dieu
Rimbaud's childhood, also of great importance: books read and influences undergone. Yet I can only do so incompletely here; and, leaving aside the catechism and the Gospel, crucial interventions of Christ's religion, as fascinating as it was detested, I think it is enough to evoke two or three ·encounters which are certain and which were essential. Many others have been supposed; but they are hardly more than fantasies. The breadth and the consistency of Arthur Rimbaud's reading have often been.
Everyday life that days of hunger can procure. To these hardships add Verlaine's friendship, which quickly became an erotic attachment and threw him into sexual disorder and emotional confusion. Then absinthe, and probably drugs. Absumphe, at least. Rimbaud has left behind the mugs and pints of Charleville-simple drinks, a benign practice of alcohol-he discovers the emerald pillars of absinthe, its alchemical beauty of a new green inn, and this is suddenly the maturation, the revealed truth, the.
Being than a resigned passivity, but for the moment he enjoys dissolving the legends and figures of poetic tradition in drunkenness, happy to watch the disintegration of this baleful universe of forms 46 RIMBAUD an intense brightness, of a fire in which all things dissolve, like the little ff,y, drunk in a ray of light near~ country inn. Are we not sons of the Sun? I cleared from the sky the blue which is darkness, wrote Rimbaud. He has finally cast off the burden of sense appearances, and.
With a dried-out fist to lift the coflin lid, sit down, and suffocate. What does he hope to escape in this way? As of now, not from his disability or its torments but from his naivete that will not stop challenging them, that keeps hoping to be able to conquer them, to counter them with some sacred image, but that soon despairs and suffers all the more. It is this life of illusion, of cruel renewals, this hell that he depicts when he writes: Ah! I am so forsaken I will offer at any shrine my.
Les Poetes de sept ans, and with the undiminished violence of Les Premieres Communions Rimbaud turns to his childhood in order to accuse Christianity of having condemned him not only, as he had a short time before understood, to the illusions of good and evil, but also to the torments of an indestructible hope. I am the slave of my baptism, he now writes bitterly. It is the Savior's religion that has taught him the notion of another, truer world, and with that promise condemned this world here to.