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Total eclipseChristopher Hampton

Total eclipse

Christopher Hampton
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Set in Paris in the late 1800s, Total Eclipse is the story of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, two of France's greatest poets. Verlaine is a volatile alcoholic torn between his lovely yet conventional wife and the seductive, dangerous and brilliant Rimbaud, a young poet whose life and work is fuelled by an insatiable hunger for intense experience, unbounded by rules or consequences. Total Eclipse is the audacious, demanding and provocative story of a volatile romantic triangle and the lives it consumes. This screenplay is based on Christopher Hampton's highly successful stage play,…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 1995
    Faber and Faber · 120 pages · 9780571178735
  • Other · English · 1981
    Faber and Faber · 76 pages · 9780571180486
  • Other · English · 1969
    Faber · 87 pages · 9780571089185
DramaEnglish dramaFiction, generalMotion picture playsTotal eclipse (Motion picture)In literature