Illumination

Japanese: 《イリュミナシヨン》 - いりゅみなしよん
Illumination

...The prose poem "A Season in Hell," written between April and August of the same year, is an expression of a personal crisis based on the above experiences, and also a collective expression of all the hellish contradictions and sufferings of modern Europe. He probably wrote another masterpiece of prose poetry, "Illuminations," over the course of three or four years before and after this work, but from around 1875 he left literature and traveled around the world, from Germany, Scandinavia, and Italy to Java, and finally engaged in trade in Egypt and Abyssinia. In 1891, he developed a tumor in the joint of his right leg, and died at a hospital in Marseille at the end of the same year. ...

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Japanese:

…同年4~8月に書かれた散文詩《地獄の一季節Une saison en enfer》は,以上の体験を踏まえた個人的危機の表現であるとともに,近代ヨーロッパのあらゆる堕地獄的矛盾,苦悩の集約的表現ともなっている。たぶんこの作の前後3~4年にわたって,もう一つの傑作散文詩集《イリュミナシヨンIlluminations》の諸作が書かれるが,75年ころからは文学を離れ,ドイツ,スカンジナビア,イタリアからジャワにまでわたる世界各地を放浪,最後はエジプト,アビシニアで交易に従事する。91年右脚関節に腫瘍ができ,同年末マルセイユの病院で死去した。…

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