Rimbaud
07 September 2001
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Graham Robb's brilliant biography moves Rimbaud on from his perpetual adolescence where our imaginations have held him to show the extent of his transformations.
From phenomenally precocious schoolboy he became Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet, author of poems that range from the exquisite to the obscene. But this brief, five-year period as the enfant-terrible of French literature is only...
Details
07 September 2001
352 pages
9780330488037
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Robb has written a great biography – scholarly, humane and above all marvelously entertaining.Guardian