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"The poet's life was stranger than any fiction: explorer, mercenary, gun runner, and companion to slave traders. 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, a reinventor of language and perception, a breaker of all taboos. 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 such artists as Picasso, Bob Dylan, and Jim Morrison.". "At the age of twenty-one, Rimbaud turned his back on poetry and on his own artistic achievement. For his remaining sixteen years he lived in exile, ending up as a major explorer and arms trader in Abyssinia. The genius of Graham Robb's account is to join the two "halves" of this life, to show the wild and unsettling poetry as a blueprint for the exotic adventures to come. This is the story of Rimbaud the explorer, in mind and matter."--BOOK JACKET.

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Author

Robb, Graham

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393322675

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.21 / 5 (718 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13