Graham Robb
Rimbaud
A Biography
"Superb...the single best work to read about this haunting and haunted poet."—Richard Howard, New York Times Book Review
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. 16 pages of b/w illustrations.
"A marvelous biography....Robb elevates himself into the Hilary Spurling class."—Observer
"Robb's is a powerfully revisionist Rimbaud, written with exhilarating lucidity and historical acumen."—Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph
"Wit, elegance and thoroughness characterize this book...[a] fine new critical biography."—John Simon, Washington Post, 26 November 2000
Graham Robb is the author of the highly acclaimed biographies Balzac and Victor Hugo (winner of the Whitbread Prize). He lives in Oxford, England.
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