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A Season in Hell (French: Une saison en enfer, Italian: Una stagione all'inferno) is a 1971 French-Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. [1] The film tells the life and death of the poet Arthur Rimbaud and his troubled relationship with the poet Paul Verlaine until the African adventure in Ethiopia. [2]
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (UK: / ˈ r æ̃ b oʊ /, US: / r æ m ˈ b oʊ /; [3] [4] French: [ʒɑ̃ nikɔla aʁtyʁ ʁɛ̃bo] ⓘ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
LibriVox reading in French. Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a Symbolist poem written in the summer of 1871 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, then aged sixteen.The poem, one-hundred lines long, with four alexandrines per each of its twenty-five quatrains, describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [1]
Rimbaud began writing the poem in April 1873 during a visit to his family's farm in Roche, near Charleville on the French-Belgian border. According to Bertrand Mathieu, Rimbaud wrote the work in a dilapidated barn. [1]: p.1 In the following weeks, Rimbaud traveled with poet Paul Verlaine through Belgium and to London again. They had begun a ...
Total Eclipse is a 1995 erotic historical drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, [3] based on a 1967 play by Christopher Hampton, who also adapted it for the screen.Based on letters and poems, it presents a historically accurate account of the relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). [4]
Georges Izambard about 1890, photographer unknown. Georges Alphonse Fleury Izambard (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ alfɔ̃s flœʁi izɑ̃baʁ]; 11 December 1848 in Paris [1] – February 1931) was a French school teacher, best known as the teacher and benefactor of poet Arthur Rimbaud.
At least two early manuscript versions of the sonnet exist: the first is in the hand of Arthur Rimbaud, and was given to Émile Blémont ; [2] [a] the second is a transcript by Verlaine. They differ mainly in punctuation, [4] though the second word of the fourth line appears as bombillent in one manuscript and as bombinent in the other. The ...
Illuminations is an incomplete suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in La Vogue , a Paris literary review, in May–June 1886. The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title Les Illuminations proposed by the poet Paul Verlaine , Rimbaud's former ...