Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel - Couverture rigide

White, Edmund

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843549719 ISBN 13 : 9781843549710

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2009

Synopsis

Rimbaud, among the greatest of French poets, notorious for his life as well as his works, is evoked by a hugely distinguished biographer. Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, yet dramatically eventful and accomplished. His long poem "Une Saison en Enfer" (1873) and his collection "Illuminations" (1886) are central to the modern canon. Having sworn off writing at the age of twenty-one, Rimbaud drifted around the world, ultimately dying from an infection contracted while gun-running in Africa. He was thirty-seven. Distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist Edmund White, brilliantly explores the young poet's relationships with his family and his teachers, as well as his notorious affair with the older and more established poet Paul Verlaine. He reveals the sometimes elusive, sometimes blatant, themes of sexual taboo that haunt Rimbaud's works, offering incisive interpretations of the poems and his own artful translations to bring us closer to this great and mercurial poet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edmund White is a renowned author and literary and cultural critic. He is the author of biographies of Genet and - in the Penguin Lives series - of Proust, and of eight novels, most recently Hotel de Dream. He teaches at Princeton and lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843549719
• ISBN 13: 9781843549710
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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