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Cartas da Abissínia

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Selecção das cartas "africanas" de Rimbaud. Através dela iluminam-se certas particularidades do "outro" Rimbaud - o comerciante, o explorador, o aventureiro.

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

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Arthur Rimbaud

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Hallucinatory work of French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud strongly influenced the surrealists.

With known transgressive themes, he influenced modern literature and arts, prefiguring. He started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian war. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. After assembling his last major work, Illuminations , Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 years in 1874.

A hectic, violent romantic relationship, which lasted nearly two years at times, with fellow poet Paul Verlaine engaged Rimbaud, a libertine, restless soul. After his retirement as a writer, he traveled extensively on three continents as a merchant and explorer until his death from cancer. As a poet, Rimbaud is well known for his contributions to symbolism and, among other works, for A Season in Hell , a precursor to modernist literature.

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May 8, 2025
Mucho mejor el principio y el final que las cartas centrales, sus años entre 1886 a 1889 son aburridas, pero sus inicios y el final se me hicieron aberrantes y me dieron miedo. Casi huyo de donde vivo para volver a mis orígenes, a alguien a quien abrazar. ¿Cuánto tiempo estuvo este hombre solo?
Pena.
Además callado y con talento.
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March 26, 2016
Libro muy interesante, que sólo aburre con detalles de expediciones a lugares que incluso agarrando un mapa son difíciles de localizar sin conocimientos geopolíticos de 1880. La correspondencia de Rimbaud confirma que no se ganó el calificativo de "escritor maldito" de gusto, sino que su historia, con muchos más bajos que altos, es el paradigma de la tragedia de quien trata de sentar cabeza yendo detrás de las promesas de la modernidad, sin poder evitar elegir el camino difícil de su espíritu nómada y morir luchando por más oportunidades incluso un día antes de irse para el otro barrio con el cuerpo incompleto, su única pierna de carne a punto de explotar por la sífilis.
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February 8, 2013
Deberían tener una adevertencia al principio (aunque Camus lo hace, en cierto modo): si te gusta Rimbaud o estás enamorado de él y su poesía NO leas las cartas, pero, si verdaderamente amas su obra y su persona tienes que leer estas cartas.
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