Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason
тАЬThe definitive translation for our time.тАЭ
тАУEdward Hirsch
From DanteтАЩs Inferno to SartreтАЩs No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur RimbaudтАЩs A Season in HellтАУwritten when the poet was nineteenтАУprovides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.
As a companion to RimbaudтАЩs journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, MasonтАЩs new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of RimbaudтАЩs tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power.
This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of RimbaudтАЩs life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations. With A Season in Hell, they cement RimbaudтАЩs reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.