Arthur Rimbaud
- Auteur
- Boeken
- Recensies
- Websites
Auteur
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). French poet and adventurer, who stopped writing verse at the age of 21, and became after his early death an inextricable myth in French gay life. Rimbaud's poetry, partially written in free verse, is characterized by dramatic and imaginative vision. 'I say that one must be a visionary - that one must make oneself a VISIONARY.' His works are among the most original in the Symbolist movement, which included in France such poets as Stéphane Mallarme and Paul Verlaine, and playwrights as Maurice Maeterlinck. Rimbaud's best-known work, LE BÂTEAU IVRE (The Drunken Boat), appeared in 1871. (bron: Petri Liukkonen)
In a gesture seldom to be repeated in his work, and in a tone seldom again heard-one of awe before a solemn and sublime object-Barthes turns to post-Symbolist poetry as an exemplary site for the autonomous production of writing. After Rimbaud, he argues, poetic writing disposes with the constraints of consumption, does away with grammar and conventional syntax, liberates itself from the social burden of communication. What remain are words, vertical and vertiginous, that jut like 'monoliths...into a totality of meanings, reflexes and recollections. (bron: Steve Evans)
Boeken
Overzicht titels:
- 1886, Illuminations (Illuminations - 1999)
- 1873, Une saison en enfer (Ik is een ander, zienersbrieven, een seizoen in de hel en Illuminations - 2006) (Een seizoen in de hel / Une Saison en enfer - 2000)
- 1870, Lettres, brieven (Afrikaanse brieven - 2001) (Brieven 1870-1875 - 2002)
- --, Poésies, poëzie (Gedichten - 1984) (Obscene gedichten - 1991) (Gedichten - 1998)
Literatuur over Arthur Rimbaud
- Guus Luijters, De rotstreken van Rimbaud - 2004
- Graham Robb, Rimbaud. De biografie - 2003
Recensies
- Brieven 1870-1875: Brieven en 'billets' van Rimbaud - Paul Depondt, de Volkskrant, 22-11-2002
- Afrikaanse brieven: Klagen is een soort van zingen - Nanne Tepper, NRC Handelsblad, 07-12-2001
- Afrikaanse brieven: 'Als een wrak aangespoeld op het hete woestijnzand' - Paul Depondt, de Volkskrant, 27-07-2001
- Illuminations: Het kind, de poëzie en het raadsel - Martin de Haan, de Volkskrant, 14-01-2000
Websites
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