I am slave to the infernal Spouse, he who ruined the foolish virgins. I must bury my imagination and my memories! He knows no one; he will never work. Happiness! Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. A Season in Hell, collection of prose and poetry pieces by French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud, published in 1873, when Rimbaud was 19, as Une Saison en enfer. From that young Oise, what could I be drinking. [need quotation to verify], Wallace Fowlie translated the poem for his Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters in 1966. Une Saison en enfer par Arthur Rimbaud ***** « Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les cœurs, où tous les vins coulaient. – My guts are burning. Within the limits of man's fate, the poet's language is able to express his existence although it is not able to create it. The honesty of beggary upsets me. Meanwhile, let us demand new things from the poets - ideas and forms. I smell of scorching, that’s certain. He would help to their feet the drunks in dark alleys. I was ripe for death, and by a perilous road my weakness led me to the confines of the world and Cimmeria, land of shadows and whirlwinds. – Horror at my stupidity. None of the sophistries of madness – that madness they lock away – were forgotten by me: I could recite them all, I know the system. It’s indeed that very same demon. I wait for God with greed. Ah, my chateau, my Saxony, my rank of willows! But I can be saved. Science! Even down. I shall unveil all the mysteries: mysteries religious or natural, death, birth, future, past, cosmogony, nothingness. Though that’s scarcely appealing...dear soul...” Suddenly I saw myself, with him vanished, in the grip of vertigo, hurled into the most frightful darkness: death. Quiet, quiet there! Tedium’s no longer my love. Merchant, you’re a black: magistrate, you’re a black: general, you’re a black: emperor, you old sore, you’re a black: you’ve drunk an untaxed liquor, Satan’s make. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. Une saison en enfer (1873), Nuit de l'enfer de Arthur Rimbaud Références de Arthur Rimbaud - Biographie de Arthur Rimbaud Plus sur cette citation >> Citation de Arthur Rimbaud (n° 93516) It’s too simple, and the weather’s too warm: they’ll do without me. Anyway service goes too far. The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, rational and immense disordering of all the senses. Never show me gems, I’d crawl on the carpet and writhe. I detest poverty. Since I can say the victory is won: the gnashing of teeth, the hissing of flames, the pestilential sighs are fading. The prose poem is loosely divided into nine parts, of varying length. We use cookies for social media and essential site functions. Geography, cosmography, physics, chemistry! In the hovels where we used to get drunk together, he would weep to see those around us, wretched cattle. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1981 Vinyl release of Une Saison En Enfer on Discogs. I demand, I demand one prick of the fork, one drop of the fire! ... – If it had been awake till now, I would never have yielded to pernicious instincts, in an immemorial age! This gentlemen knows not what he does, he’s an angel. For what crime, what error, have I merited present weakness? The world is good. Women will discover the unknown! I remember nothing more distant than this country and Christianity. Sometimes he speaks in a kind of tender patois, of death which brings repentance, of the wretches who must exist, of painful toil, and partings that rend hearts. – It’s true: it was Eden I dreamt of! Earlier Zelda had learned French on her own, by buying a French dictionary and painstakingly reading Raymond Radiguet's Le bal du Comte d'Orgel. For there are pugnacious and joyous folk: a false elect since we need neither audacity nor humility to approach them. 2020, une saison en enfer pour le cinéma. I fled. Who prove so clearly that the singer is so seldom the work, that’s to say the idea sung and intended by the singer. My God, have pity, hide me, I can’t defend myself! He finished the work in a farmhouse in Roche, Ardennes. That’s our fate, we charitable hearts...” Alas, he had days when all human activity seemed to him a plaything of grotesque delirium; he would laugh horribly for hours! At present, I inhabit the world’s depths! It was published by James Laughlin's New Directions, the first American publisher of Rimbaud's Illuminations. ... Fire! The universal intelligence has always thrown out its ideas naturally: men gathered a part of these fruits of the mind: they acted them out, they wrote books by means of them: so it progressed, men not working on themselves, either not being awake, or not yet in the fullness of the great dream. Monsieur Prudhomme was born with Christ. You’ll kill me as he killed her. Fill the boudoirs with burning powdered rubies...”. No hymns: hold the yard gained. Oh, will you grant me the life of adventures that exists in children’s books, to repay me, I’ve suffered so? See how the flames rise up! A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green. But always alone: without a family: what language, even, did I speak? I ended by treating my mental disorder as sacred. O sorceresses, O misery, O hatred, it was to you my treasure was entrusted! Humanity simply moves about. Over the sea, which I loved as if it were sure to cleanse me of defilement, I saw the consoling cross arise. I forgot all my human tasks to follow him. Nature could be bored, perhaps! Each has his reason, scorn, pity: I retain my place at the summit of this angelic ladder of good sense. I recall the history of France, eldest daughter of the Church. So no old age, no dangers: to be terrified is un-French. I was born His slave. ... Science! ‘Leafless March’ I’ll hurl myself under the horses’ hooves! Well then, let us confide this thing, though we repeat it twenty times more – just as drearily, as insignificant! Autumn. – Poor men, workers! From them I get: idolatry and love of sacrilege: – oh, all the vices, anger, lust – magnificent, the lust – above all lying and sloth! – Isn’t all that far from the thought, the wisdom of the East, the primeval land? Synopsis : Evocation de la vie d'Arthur Rimbaud. And what tears again, later, I hope! The rational song of the Angels rises from the lifeboat: it is divine love. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. For the body and the soul – the Eucharist – we’ve medicine and philosophy – old wives’ remedies and arrangements of popular songs. J'ai avalé une fameuse gorgée de poison. Édouard Baldus (French, born Germany, 1813 - 1889), Getty Open Content Program. Yes, I’ve shut my eyes to your light. That’s what has always been wrong with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness to principles. Don’t be one of the defeated. According to biographer Graham Robb, this began "as an attempt to explain why some of his [Rimbaud's] poems are so hard to understand, especially when sober". I can speak no more. I’ll bless life. Make the city eats its own dust. I suffer truly. I don’t ask for prayer; with your trust alone, I’ll be happy. – I followed him, I have to! However, it is a well and deliberately edited and revised text. These poets will exist! ‘Nothing’s in vain: on to Science, forward!’ Cries the modern Ecclesiastes, that’s to say The Whole World. Here I am on the Breton shore. RÉCIT - En France, le box-office est en chute libre avec 65 millions de tickets, contre 213 millions en 2019. An enormity become the norm, absorbed by all, he would truly be an enhancer of progress! I was idle, prey to a heavy fever: I envied the happiness of beasts – caterpillars: that represent Limbo’s innocence, moles: the sleep of virginity! Ah! All the foul memories are vanishing. I don’t think I’m embarking for a wedding with Jesus Christ for father-in-law. Not for you, the history of eastern peoples. Night revolves in my eyes, in this sun! Philosophers, you belong to your West. I could see myself before an angry crowd, facing the firing-squad, weeping with a misery they couldn’t have understood, and forgiving them! It’s the vision of numbers. The hallucinations are innumerable. I know work: and Science is too slow. John Moran (American, born England, 1829 - 1902), Getty Open Content Program. My life’s used up. The Gospel has passed! What lie must I uphold? And I played some fine tricks on madness. I listen to him make infamy of glory, charm of cruelty. I loved idiotic pictures, fanlights, stage scenes, mountebanks’ backcloths, inn-signs, popular prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, erotic books with poor spelling, novels of grandmother’s day, fairy tales, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, naïve rhythms. – He’d go about with the air of a little girl on the way to her catechism. Frivolous tastes have quit me. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, including the Surrealists. Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936), Getty Open Content Program. - 10 citations - Référence citations - Citations Une saison en enfer (1873), Mauvais Sang Sélection de 10 citations et proverbes sur le thème Une saison en enfer (1873), Mauvais Sang Découvrez un dicton, une parole, un bon mot, un proverbe, une citation ou phrase Une saison en enfer (1873), Mauvais Sang issus de livres, discours ou entretiens. Autumn already! Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon] (French, 1820 - 1910), Getty Open Content Program, (Une Saison en Enfer: Délires I: Vierge Folle, L’Époux Infernal). But orgies and the company of women were forbidden me. I ought to have a hell for my anger, a hell for my pride, – and a hell for my caresses; a concert of hells. De profundis Domine, what a creature I am! And that poison, that kiss a thousand times damned! Well then, demon! Poot et compagnie), imprimeur-éditeur à Bruxelles. They won’t kill you any more than if you were a corpse.’ In the morning I had such a lost look, such a dead face, that those who met me perhaps they did not see me. It makes me regret the world very little. Oh! No, he only seeks them, I’d tell myself. Translated by A. S. Kline © Copyright 2002, 2008 All Rights Reserved. Ah, that life of my childhood, the highway in all weathers, supernaturally sober, more disinterested than the finest of beggars, proud of having neither country nor friends, how foolish it was. – No more words. ‘Desert Sand Hills near Sink of Carson, Nevada’ What tears! – I could not drink: I saw gold, weeping! I am lost. Why shouldn’t it turn as well? ... Come...I’ve a pillow over my mouth; they can’t hear me, they’re phantoms. A peasant! How the towns glow in the evening. -Et je l'ai trouvée amère. Good luck, I’d cry, and I’d see a sea of flames and smoke in the sky: and to right and left all the riches flaming like a trillion lightning flashes. It was as frivolous as my telling him: “I understand.”. Sadly distressed, I sometimes said to him: “I understand you.” He shrugged his shoulders. – I’ll kill myself! I armed myself against Justice. To do what? Divine love alone offers the keys of knowledge. But no friendly hand! – Ah, I am mad! When he seemed listless, I followed him, myself, in strange and complex deeds, far out, for good or ill: I was certain of never entering his world. Old folks and invalids are so respectable they ask to be boiled. Francis Frith (English, 1822 - 1898), Getty Open Content Program, (Lettre à Paul Demeny: Charleville, 15 mai 1871).

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