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Rimbaud

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Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his published poems. But his posthumous career is even more astonishing: saint to symbolists and surrealists; poster child for anarchy and drug use; gay pioneer; a major influence on artists from Picasso to Bob Dylan.

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"Superb...the single best work to read about this haunting and haunted poet."--Richard Howard, New York Times Book Review

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Graham Robb is the award-winning biographer of Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud. His other books include The Discovery of France, Parisians, and Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century. He lives in Oxford, England.

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drumforjoy, December 30, 2008 (view all comments by drumforjoy)
Reading about Rimbauds' entire life, not only the 4 years or so that he actually produced poems, brings out new meanings in his poetry, and proves to be more entertaining than reading the poems themselves.

Engaging and readable book, so much that I read it cover to cover within a few days.
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ISBN:
9780393322675
Author:
Robb, Graham
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
European - French
Subject:
Biography-Literary
Publication Date:
20011231
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TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
16 pages of b/w illustrations.
Pages:
592
Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 in 1.56 lb

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