Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition
by Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
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Author: Jean Nicholas Arthur RimbaudEditor: Seth Whidden
Translator: Wallace Fowlie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); French (Published); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0226719774
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Book Review: Buy it for the orginal French poems, not the translations
Summary: 4 Stars
I do not know French well enough to read these poems without their translations. That is where Wallace Fowlie's literal translations often come in handy. The only problem with his translations is that they tend not be very poetic. Often, Fowlie rearranges word order unnecessarily, creating more functional English, but losing some poetic impact. This isn't a big problem since the French text is right there, and one can get a sense of the beauty of the original poem.
Sometimes, though, the translation fails utterly, as in "Le dormeur du val", where Fowlie translates the phrase "chante une riviere / Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons / D'argent" as "a river sings / Madly catching on the grasses / Silver rags". The sentence in Englsh makes no sense whatsoever, and as I don't know French very well, it took me a long time to realize that Rimbaud was saying the river looked like silver rags on the grass. A little more guidance with the translation would have been appreciated.
All in all, I would recommend this book, as it's the only comprehensive collection of Rimbaud's poems I'm aware of that offers you the French version alongside an English translation. Unless you can read French and will be fine with simply a French version, you should get this book so you will have the original to reference, as you are bound to run into problems with any translation.
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