Arthur Rimbaud : Presence of an Enigma

by Steinmetz, Jean-Luc; Graham, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781566491068
• ISBN10: 1566491061
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

A refreshing biography of French Poet Rimbaud that cpatures its audacious subject with the immediacy of a photo album...

Author Biography

Jean-Luc Steinmetz edited the 1989 Editions Flammarion edition of The Complete Works of Rimbaud. His biography of Stephane Mallarme (Fayard, 1998) was the first comprehensive biography of the poet in French in almost fifty years.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
PART I A SCHOOLBOY FROM CHARLEVILLE
Pieces of Childhood	3	(12)
The Humanities	15	(14)
A Professor Named Izambard	29	(21)
History	50	(13)
The New Poetry	63	(22)
PART II WITH THE ``PITIFUL BROTHER''
In the Land of the Vilains Bonshommes	85	(26)
Martyrdom, Prayers, and the Way of the Cross	111	(24)
Two English ``Seasons''	135	(19)
Roche, the Mecca of Absence	154	(11)
Fallout	165	(18)
PART III HERE AND ELSEWHERE
The Damned One's Notebook	183	(11)
A ``Young Parisian'' in London	194	(10)
1875: A Year in Tatters	204	(18)
The Javanese	222	(16)
The Flaky Traveler	238	(19)
PART IV RIMBAUD THE AFRICAN
Aden, ``A Frightful Rock''	257	(10)
Harar, City of Hyenas	267	(15)
The ``Mind-Numbing Tasks''	282	(25)
An Arms Merchant in Shoa	307	(17)
From Rest in Egypt to the Return to Harar	324	(32)
Suffering and Death	356	(25)
Endnotes	381	(48)
Chronology	429	(18)
Bibliography	447	(12)
Index	459