A review by fleural
Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre: A season in hell & The drunken boat by Arthur Rimbaud

5.0

There's no argument against Rimbaud´s genius and fervor and his feeling of constantly being an outsider and active observer. His poetry is beautiful and full of emotion, brimmed with both sociopolitical and psychosocial commentary. As young as he was, he was a shaper of the ambiance he was living, his words a framework for the spirit of his times. The introduction did not do his life nor his genius justice but it was aptly truncated, written as though frustrated with the brevity of a genius whose madness is retrospectively saner than the times we are living in. Beautiful humanistic poetry, illustrated by elements of Pagan lore and irreverent theology.