A review by reaellis
Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre: A season in hell & The drunken boat by Arthur Rimbaud

2.0

first of all- why does no one talk about the racism in this book?

i have never read something so self aware yet so oblivious. i know that im supposed to like it, and while i can understand and appreciate this work for the trailblazing it did for poetry, i find myself rather upset with the praise it gets. his life was interesting but the way that he gets recognized for this "bursting of emotion" that just simply was not there, is crazy to me. the majority of it is sloppily written for people who are to immature to recognize that too much angst enables them. i love a good stream of consciousness read, but not this one.
the perspective of the drunken boat was interesting but not groundbreaking.

that being said they're are some beautifully written parts, but not enough. like most classics, innovative for its respective time period but not much else.