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Article: De la lettre a l'esprit: pour lire 'Illuminations'.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2006
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De la lettre a l'esprit: pour lire 'Illuminations'. By ANTOINE FONGARO. (Colloques, congres et conferences. Epoque moderne et contemporaine, 14) Paris: Champion. 2004. 446 pp. 65 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1120-4.
This volume offers an organic reading of Rimbaud's Illuminations by dint of a series of close studies of individual texts from the collection. These readings are characterized by a consistent method of close and scrupulous interpretations of the poems and from them emerges a certain picture of both poet and poetry. We are looking here at articles spanning a period of some forty years, studies in which Fongaro repeatedly takes issue with trends in Rimbaud ...