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Bezig met laden... The Day on Firedoor James Ramsey Ullman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 5 stars for the first 200 pages 2 stars for the remaining 460 = 3 stars. The first and best part covers the portion of Rimbaud's life that is most documented--essentially the same content as the movie Total Eclipse. Rimbaud's life is fascinating, his poetry sublime. I read everything I could get my hands on (French and English) when first I discovered him. Then I watched the aforementioned movie (meh). Yet it would be roughly seven years before I would learn of Ullman's book (mentioned in Annie Dillard's [b:Holy the Firm|7695|Holy the Firm|Annie Dillard|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410132219s/7695.jpg|1377055][b:Holy the Firm|7695|Holy the Firm|Annie Dillard|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410132219s/7695.jpg|1377055]). Ullman tells us up front that the book, especially after the first part, is largely imaginative. But even read as a narrative of the literal and spiritual wanderings of an enfant terrible, the 460 pages are grueling, repetitive, dense paragraphs that would please those looking for a travel journal more than a novel, be it biographical or otherwise. When I learned that Ullman was himself quite the traveler and mountaineer and spent time retraces the steps of Rimbaud, the self-indulgent bloat of the novel made more sense. I really wanted to like this one more--in fact, I prioritized and expedited its reading--but 664 pages of text set in 6pt Dante MT face was too much to ask for so underwhelming an experience. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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By the age of fifteen, Arthur Rimbaud was already one of the most brilliant poets of his time. And for the next four years - and four only - Rimbaud (the Claude Morel of this book) was simultaneously a writer of genius, a visionary idealist, and a deliberate wallower in gutters of depravity perhaps unmatched in all of human experience. But at the age of nineteen, he was through forever with both writing and debauchery, and at this point, he all but vanished, spending most of his remaining years as a vagabond wanderer through Europe and Africa. In the epic The Day on Fire (1958), a masterwork of biographical fiction, James Ramsey Ullman retraces the steps of Rimbaud's life from his rebellious youth in a dull provincial town to his teenage years as a homosexual, drunkard and drug addict in Paris, and his later years, wandering the desert in search of some elusive beauty or truth. As Ullman writes in his Foreword, "The truth, the inward core, of Rimbaud's life, is a truth for all times, as long as each of us, all of us, have our nights alone and our days on fire, our seasons in hell and our hope of heaven." "It comes close to being the best book we've ever read." - Victoria Advocate "A literary masterpiece ... One of the most forceful novels of our decade." - Montreal Gazette "A haunting tale with an obsessive fascination." - Kirkus Reviews "Shocking ... Ullman has succeeded in making believable a life whose terms would be considered absolutely unbelievable if we did not know that they were true." - Chicago Tribune "Engrossing ... a tragic life dramatically, poetically and compellingly visualized." - Booklist Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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