A review by nicomarlyse
Poésies - Une saison en enfer - Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud

3.0

Une saison en enfer... les poèmes de Rimbaud sont obséndantes—les lamentations d'un amour perdu. I read Une saison en enfer in both French and English. Translation did hinder the sound of Rimbaud's free verse (of course, because it was originally written in French) yet the poem is still beautiful in English. At times I felt repulsed by certain word choices, but the romanticization of colonization could probably be attributed to the time period in which Rimbaud wrote this poem. It does boggle me that he wrote this at, what, 19? His life was filled with intense personal issues for which I feel both disgust and sympathy. Nonetheless, he was extremely talented.