Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
by:
Edmund White (author)
“White’s abiding kinship with Rimbaud gives this restless soul’s well-traveled tale new fire.”—Vanity Fair
“White’s abiding kinship with Rimbaud gives this restless soul’s well-traveled tale new fire.”—Vanity Fair
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781934633656 (1934633658)
Publish date: December 1st 2009
Publisher: Atlas
Edition language: English
This is an excellent book for what it is -- a very brief and readable biography of this remarkable figure, focused largely on his sick relationship with Verlaine; but also an intelligent meditation on Rimbaud's poetics, albeit in brief. White thinks that Enid Starkie's biography is excellent and re...
The only biography of Rimbaud that I've read. I appreciated White's frankness about letting his own hand be seen, as he tried to understand these lives. One thing that I took away from it was a way of seeing Rimbaud's wild poetic years as an integral part of his totally conservative life before and ...
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