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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Arthur Rimbaud; Arthur Rimbaud |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Graham Robb |
| ISBN: | 0393049558 9780393049558 |
| OCLC Number: | 44969183 |
| Description: | xviii, 551 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part one (1854-1871) -- Bad blood -- Filth -- "Perfect little monster' -- 'Mad ambition' -- Convictions -- Tour du France -- Needful destruction -- The seer -- Departure -- Part two (1871-1874) -- 'Nasty fellows' -- Savage of the Latin Quarter -- 'Mlle Rimbaut' -- Dogs -- Songs of innocence -- 'The good disciple' -- Fugitives -- Underword -- Pagan -- Household in hell -- 'No serious motive' -- Harvest -- 'Metropolitain' -- Part three (1874-1880) -- Pigeons -- Philomath -- Mr. Holmes -- John Arthur Rimbaud -- Explosive -- Part four (1880-1991) -- Empires -- The unknown -- 'Poor Arthur' -- Paradise -- Abdo Rinbo -- Guns for Africa -- Horror -- Profit -- At home -- 'Odious tyranny' -- Opportunities -- 'Ferocious invalid' -- Marine. |
| Responsibility: | Graham Robb. |
Abstract:
The genius of Robb's account is to join the two halves of Arthur Rimbaud's life, to show Rimbaud's wild and unsettling poetry as a blueprint for the exotic adventures to come. This is the story of Rimbaud the explorer, in mind and in matter.
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