/lit/ - Literature

French

he was a genius

>>16904129
This kid keeps getting posted here and I never ask for a rundown but this time it's happening.

What in the fuck is up with this dude?

>>16904182
Arthur Rimbaud, one of the greatest French poet of modernity in French (and I think he had influence beyond that). Child prodigy, wrote poems the quality of which you or I will never surpass when he was under 10. Then when full bohemian mode, got ass-fucked and shot at by Verlaine, another great poet, and raped in the ass during the Paris Commune. After a wrote surprisingly few poems and made an everlasting impact on French lit he said fuck it, stopped writing and became a gun dealer in Africa and we know next to nothing of this life.

>>16904140
/thread

>>16904240
He actually got assraped by the Communards?

>>16904355
This poem seems to indicate so:

Mon triste cœur bave à la poupe …
Mon cœur est plein de caporal!
Ils y lancent des jets de soupe,
Mon triste cœur bave à la poupe…
Sous les quolibets de la troupe
Qui lance un rire général,
Mon triste cœur bave à la poupe,
Mon cœur est plein de caporal!

Ithyphalliques et pioupiesques
Leurs insultes l’ont dépravé;
À la vesprée, ils font des fresques
Ithyphalliques et pioupiesques;
Ô flots abracadabrantesques,
Prenez mon cœur, qu’il soit sauvé!
Ithyphalliques et pioupiesques,
Leurs insultes l’ont dépravé.

Quand ils auront tari leurs chiques,
Comment agir, ô cœur volé?
Ce seront des refrains bachiques
Quand ils auront tari leurs chiques!
J’aurai des sursauts stomachiques
Si mon cœur triste est ravalé!
Quand ils auront tari leurs chiques,
Comment agir, ô cœur volé?

>>16904129
wasnt he talking about francois coppée in that poem about fucking his parents

>>16904394
In English, please.

>>16904129
Is there any point in reading Rimbaud, Verlaine, etc in English translations if I don’t speak French?

>>16904497
Non.

>>16904497
At least try a bilingual edition

>>16904497
there's really no point in reading any translated poem.

>>16904403
He attributed the poem to Coppée as a joke (all the Zutist poems are falsely attributed to other poets that he was mocking), but yeah, it's probably not autobiographical; either semi-autobiographical or just imagined. Either ways, the narrator in the poem does want to fuck his mom, dad, sister and priest. lmao

>>16904240
Was he the original femboy?

>>16904852
Archetypal.