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Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel

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Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, but just as dramatically eventful and accomplished. Even today, over a century after his death in 1891, his visionary poetry has continued to influence everyone from Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan to Patti Smith. His long poem A Season in Hell (1873) and his collection Illuminations (1886) are essential to...more

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Published November 17th 2008 by Atlas (first published October 9th 2008)

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Oct 15, 2008 Tosh rated it 5 of 5 stars

Edmund White comes through again. A very informative and entertaining short biography on Arthur Rimbaud. Through a confession of sort in the first part of the book, White has a personal interest in the relationship between Rimbaud and the poet Paul Verlaine. In other words, what a couple! But a relationship that really had an affect on contemporary literature.

Rimbaud is really the first punk rock figure. A total asshole who wrote like an angel. His beauty and his sometimes ugliness really added...more

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What a magnificent character Arthur Rimbaud must have been! He lived a strange, decadent, chaotic and lamentably short life. Like so many misunderstood poets, ahead of its time. Like a blazing star, he burned so brightly that he burned himself out. But in his short 37 years, he may have lived more than most who live twice as long. He was truly and s[spectacularly larger-than-life, yet at the same time, he is exceedingly, almost exaggeratedly human in his vices and other failings of character. Th...more What a magnificent character Arthur Rimbaud must have been! He lived a strange, decadent, chaotic and lamentably short life. Like so many misunderstood poets, ahead of its time. Like a blazing star, he burned so brightly that he burned himself out. But in his short 37 years, he may have lived more than most who live twice as long. He was truly and s[spectacularly larger-than-life, yet at the same time, he is exceedingly, almost exaggeratedly human in his vices and other failings of character. This book gives an interesting perspective on his life. The biographer speaks in the introduction of reading Rimbaud's poetry as a young gay man struggling to accept himself in an intolerant society, and finding inspiration in the person of this short, sneering Frenchman that was frequently compared to angels and devils, but never anything in between - a study in extremes. He focuses very doggedly on the whirlwind, passionate and violent relationship between Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, and takes a very casual, familiar and sometimes very glib tone about their adventures together, often peppering the time line with amusing anecdotes to shock the reader with Rimbaud's heady audacity, so that the story never turns dry or dull. Though the author makes no attempt to hide Rimbaud's flaws - and there were many, not the least of which was his personal hygiene - one can't help but feel a twinge of regret that one cannot travel back in time to meet this eccentric creature oneself. This book left me wondering what would have become of Rimbaud's work if he had lived longer; did his abrupt cessation of his writing career at age 19, coupled with his death at 37, cement his legend? If he'd lived to a ripe old age, would his poetry have faded slowly into oblivion along with his life? No one can say, but as it stands, he is one of the most shocking and fascinating poets that I've ever come across and his amazing life story only serves to illuminate and reinforce the fascination of his poetry. I REALLY enjoyed this book!(less)

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Nov 24, 2012 Al Bità rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The French homosexual poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) had a significant influence on major early 20th-c writers, musicians and artists, despite the fact that his own writing covers at most the five year period from when he was 16 to 21 years of age (at which time he swore off poetry forever). His influence on the Symbolists, Dadaists and Surrealists, who took his cold, cruel, often deliberately ugly descriptions of reality as he saw it, was extensive. It was used, perhaps, to express and give cr...more The French homosexual poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) had a significant influence on major early 20th-c writers, musicians and artists, despite the fact that his own writing covers at most the five year period from when he was 16 to 21 years of age (at which time he swore off poetry forever). His influence on the Symbolists, Dadaists and Surrealists, who took his cold, cruel, often deliberately ugly descriptions of reality as he saw it, was extensive. It was used, perhaps, to express and give credence to the extremely negative emotions following the disasters and debacles of the first half of the 20th-c in Europe. They saw these abominations as consequent to the naive optimism and unquestioning idealism of the beau-monde, fin-de-siecle European culture. Rimbaud's rich, chilling and disturbing imagery and language found sympathetic ears with the French philosophers and writers of the 20th-c to justify a negative, deeply despondent and depressing response requiring the overthrowing of the old ideals in all areas. This concern still affects most cultural responses to culture and the arts today, particularly through the excesses of post-modernism.

Whether the above is true as a prophetic assessment of Rimbaud, Edmund White's elegant and even poetic attempt at an evaluation of this disturbing poet is problematic. One thing that emerged from this work was that, for me, Rimbaud would have been an extremely unpleasant and untrustworthy person; more of a general rebel against any form of authority, particularly in the world of poetry, which was seen to reflect concepts related to belles lettres (beautiful writing). Rimbaud comes across more as a trouble-maker than as someone truly concerned by what 'beautiful writing' might mean. He does not seem to have any real sympathy with anyone, even with his more gentle and 'poetic' lover Verlaine. It seems to me that as a person he had no sense whatsoever of compassion or sensitivity. Many see the opposite as the basis for poetry and the arts; Rimbaud, apparently, does not. Attempting to reconcile these two conflicting concepts will tend to fail — yet ironically, it remains one of the 'tasks' assessors set themselves in dealing with this strange man. In the end, however, such a resolution is unachievable: so Rimbaud remains an enigma.(less)

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Al Bità Yes, Verlaine is most important, for starters.

White does give some interesting details re Rimbaud's legend in the last section of his book, including...more
Nov 29, 2012 02:13pm

Wayne Found your review very interesting, Al.
I've just been looking at my Penguin volume of Rimbaud purchased in 1999 and never read... "all things come to...more
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Sep 19, 2012 James rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: criticism, biography

Rimbaud, like Mozart, was one of the great artistic freaks of nature. Surely he was a stubborn, insolent, depressed soul, but his massive egotism and restlessness also were the catalysts that drove him to see and think like few others have. For anyone sensitive to life and its brevity, to its mysteries and paradoxes, this genius boy is a revelation.

I read Starkie’s famous bio of Rimbaud years ago and learned a lot about the later years, after Rimbaud abandoned poetry and turned towards business...more Rimbaud, like Mozart, was one of the great artistic freaks of nature. Surely he was a stubborn, insolent, depressed soul, but his massive egotism and restlessness also were the catalysts that drove him to see and think like few others have. For anyone sensitive to life and its brevity, to its mysteries and paradoxes, this genius boy is a revelation.

I read Starkie’s famous bio of Rimbaud years ago and learned a lot about the later years, after Rimbaud abandoned poetry and turned towards business and a futile life of adventure and arms trading in Africa. For someone, such as myself, who is interested in the motivations of artists—at least those rare ones like Rimbaud—his abandonment of poetry is tremendously difficult to understand. In White’s bio, with its blend of narrative and criticism, one gets a clearer picture of Rimbaud’s sordid life—his strange family circumstances, his rustic upbringing, his periodic political eruptions and hunger for liberation, his destructive relationship with Verlaine, and his subsequent flight from Paris and the world of Poetry. But you also see how the poet came into his own, how he pushed towards the brink of newness through experimentation both in life and in art, and ultimately was brought down by exhaustion and uncertainty. As White notes, contra Yeats famous dictum: Rimbaud did not feel the need to choose between art and life; he endeavored to make both parts of an intertwining project of rebellion.

Rimbaud was also an ethical visionary, sensing the same gripping cultural nihilism that Nietzsche spent so much time theorizing about. His response entailed a strong poetic commitment, an attempt to derange the senses in order to see and experience new possibilities. His experiment gave rise to a whole new type of poetry; and the centrepiece of his oeuvre is his magnificent prose poem A Season in Hell. Many of the subtle textures of this work—in particular, how much of it deals with Rimbaud’s affair with Verlaine—is discussed and analysed by White, and one sees how strong and revolutionary a work of art it is, something quite extraordinary when you consider he was still a teenager when he wrote it!

By the end, one does not solve the riddle completely of Rimbaud's change of heart regarding poetry. But one at least starts to understand his psychology, and the torment that drove him. And that at least gives one some interesting clues.

Anyway, very enjoyable book. My sole complaint is that it is too short!
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Mar 20, 2011 Corey Ryan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, non-fiction

"In order to become a true poet, Rimbaud wrote, the writer must turn himself into a seer. 'The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense and carefully reasoned disordering of all the senses.' The poet must subject himself to a self-instigated torture; he must undergo all the agonies of love, suffering and madness. 'He needs all his faith, all his superhuman force, and he will become the great sick man, the great criminal, the great cursed sinner-and the supreme Wise Man, since he'll have reach...more

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Dec 08, 2012 Branden William rated it 4 of 5 stars

A well-written glimpse into the world of a true literary genius, from the perspective of a homosexual author, Edmund White. Exerting a strong influence on surrealism, as one of the most important poets of his time, whose 'power of incantation' Andre Breton found overwhelming-- and who would always remain a key source in the development of surrealist thought-- Rimbaud quickly felt that poetry must break with tradition and "usher in a new era of human history." He felt that all poetry was written...more A well-written glimpse into the world of a true literary genius, from the perspective of a homosexual author, Edmund White. Exerting a strong influence on surrealism, as one of the most important poets of his time, whose 'power of incantation' Andre Breton found overwhelming-- and who would always remain a key source in the development of surrealist thought-- Rimbaud quickly felt that poetry must break with tradition and "usher in a new era of human history." He felt that all poetry was written in the language of common sense. This of course, among other things, makes Rimbaud a controversial figure in the literary world, as it has been said, "either Rimabud is a genius, to whom everything is permitted, or he's a brat." Opinions vary, though for the most part, Arthur Rimbaud was both revered and loathed. Rimbaud told the world that he was going to write in a 'new, made-up language' and he did just that. "To create a poetic language that speaks to all the senses, I'll take words from scholarly and technical vocabularies, from foreign languages, wherever I can..."

The arduous love/hate relationship between the older Paul Verlaine and the young genius Rimbaud is of course detailed as in all Rimbaud biographies, a relationship in which Rimbaud saw himself as an archangel descended to earth to liberate Verlaine from his bourgeois temptations as a man and the tendencies towards prettiness in his poetry. They pursued Rimbaud's program of "the disordering of the senses," and became the most notorious homosexual couple of the day. Nevertheless, without Verlaine's efforts, Rimbaud would be just a footnote in the history of a forgotten literary movement.

Rimbaud's greatest quote, which canonizes him as a Surrealist saint, is thus: "The writer must turn himself into a seer. The Poet becomes a seer through a long, immense and carefully reasoned disordering of the senses. The poet must subject himself to a self-instigated torture; he must undergo all the agonies of love, suffering, and madness. He needs all his faith, all his superhuman force, and he will become the great sick man, the great criminal, the great cursed sinner-- and the supreme Wise Man, since he'll have reached the Unknown." With such a new radical motive for thought looming among turn-of-the-century poets, beginning in the 1920's, Rimbaud was declared as one of the formative influences and precursors of the Surrealistic movement. Rimbaud is also considered one of the leaders of the Symbolists and also the Decadents (a movement he no doubt had never heard of)-- a term coined by Verlaine himself.

It is difficult not to write endless volumes, praising Rimbaud as a phenomenon (which he was). He is the godfather of modern poetry and a deity of surrealistic literature. Better known for his infamous character than for his poetry during his lifetime, he was a ragged dandy, the bohemian picture of the day. Edmund White's naked analyzation of Rimbaud's life evokes a gracious tone of wild rebeliousness and dry-eyed realism, as Rimbaud's difficult life was a far cry from any sort of fairy-tale grandeur. Rimabaud had no academic upbringing or bona fide set of skills-- just true genius, which no one seemed to appreciate. Rimbaud's reputation as a teen rebel and anti-bourgeois revolutionary makes him all the more interesting to grasp. He began his literary career as a fifteen-year old and retired at the age of nineteen. He marks an epoch...(less)

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May 31, 2010 Josh rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was an easy read, other than White's impressive vocabulary making me look up a word every few pages. I wanted to learn the scandal and the genius of Rimbaud, whose work I have never read. I enjoyed White's A Boy's Own Story so I sought out this biography. White steers clear, at least in these two books, of emotionality. His fiction does not suffer much for this; it's never less than compelling (though I think it would be unmatched if White could convey feeling as well as a Toni Morrison). T...more

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May 07, 2011 AC rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: modernism

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 readable and almost novelistic -- but questions its accuracy. As one example, he shows how Starkie first infers the notorious gang-rape from one of Rimbaud's poems (there is no hard evidence for it), and...more

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May 17, 2009 Jenn rated it 4 of 5 stars

If you are interested in finding out what really made Arthur Rimbaud tick, start with this book by Edmund White. I didn't really know enough before picking this book up to have any misconceptions, but if you did, this will set you straight.(no pun intended)

From a 21st century American's perspective, AR and Paul Verlaine's story is definitely bizarre. Frequent journeys into gutters both domestic and foreign, abusive rampages and family members who funded said journeys and an absolute commitment t...more

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Jul 05, 2011 Karen Renee Collins rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 19th-century, biography, france, poetry

Through no fault of the author, you are left wanting more. Rimbaud's bizarre short life has been preserved in a handful of letters, "The Drunken Boat", "Illuminations", "A Season in Hell", and a few additional scattered works. Much of his life is documented through the warped veil of Verlaine's eyes. Rimbuad's decision to completely change his life after his crazy, tumultuous affair with poetry (and Verlaine) is difficult to comprehend. From an obnoxious youth who managed to fit "merde" into eve...more

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Apr 20, 2011 ~riaria~ rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle, biography, rimbaud

The first biographical book I have ever read about my teenage obsession/idol, Arthur Rimbaud. I still think he is a fascinating figure and an amazing poet. If you are interested in learning more about his short and turbulent life, his relationship with Verlaine or his mother and other interesting trivia, I highly recommend this book by Edmund White.

White really touched me, when he said that he used to sneak out in the night to read Rimbaud's poetry in the bathroom of his strict all-boys boardin...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Sean Carman rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This seems like the best introduction you could find to Rimbaud's life and work. White's biography moves at a brisk pace, describing Rimbaud's visionary approach to poetry and his intolerable personification of the Romantic artistic ideal -- it sounds great to achieve a "complete disordering of the senses" until you actually try it in your real life. Verlaine comes across as pathetic, Rimbaud as impossible. Maybe they were truly meant for each other. Naturally, I ordered the Modern Library paper...more

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Jan 10, 2011 Bianca rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, nonfiction, lgbt

Arthur Rimbaud is probably one of the most fascinating people, to me, of all time. Everything about his life intrigues me, and his relationship with Paul Verlaine was both a thing of beauty and a treacherous, unhealthy addiction that neither of them could seem to break. I feel connected to Rimbaud through that typical, sad isolation; the kind only met when someone is too much like who they are idolizing but probably too unbelievable for anyone else to take notice.

Singlehandedly, Rimbaud pretty...more

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Dec 05, 2008 William rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008

A short work (less than 200 pages) that just touches upon the greatest moments on the life of Rimbaud, from the early "deplorable behavior" of his late teen years to his different un-poetic persona (cut short by his death at the age of 37). Not enough text to fully satisfy one's curiosity about this amazing personality, but at least an introduction that makes one want to read more (such as the 1000+ pages of Lefrere's biography published in 2001). The author, White, has a tendency to let some of...more

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Oct 17, 2008 david-baptiste rated it 2 of 5 stars

I've been reading this at the bookstore as it just arrived--and , before i go further, should point out that it is written specifically for the Atlas series, whcih do not purport to be the kind of exhaustive bios--such as author Edmund White has written of Genet, for example--that others have penned regarding Rimbaud. (A recent french bio is over 1,200 pages; the best English language bio is Graham Robb's, which is over 500)--
so on that count, word count, don't expect the same kind of detail tha...more I've been reading this at the bookstore as it just arrived--and , before i go further, should point out that it is written specifically for the Atlas series, whcih do not purport to be the kind of exhaustive bios--such as author Edmund White has written of Genet, for example--that others have penned regarding Rimbaud. (A recent french bio is over 1,200 pages; the best English language bio is Graham Robb's, which is over 500)--
so on that count, word count, don't expect the same kind of detail that other bios present--still, considering White's own writing and his acumen in the Genet--this bio is disappointing--a lot of the "insights" into R's character are rather perfunctory--and the readings of some of the poetry are--amazingly diaphanous--vague in the extreme--which is bizarre as Rimbaud is a very concrete and precise writer--as he hiumself told his mother--about the meaning of his works--every word means what it is literally and in every sense--that is, a precision which begins with the concrete and explodes from there--so the pun is often at the origin of the Rimbaldien phrase or word or syllable or sound--letter even--
(Duchamp picks up on this in his famous LHOOQ)--
White provides his own translations of the works of Verlaine and Rimbaud both, which aree refreshing to read, simply becuase they are not familair--andone appreciates his doing this, as it give one a sense of the way he hears and feels and thinks the language used by the two poets--
(in some ways White seems actually more sympathetic to Verlaine than Rimbaud--)
much of the book has an oddly cursory feel to it--perhpas ajob done for the money? one wonders?--well, why not?--perhpas it is giving the author a well deserved rip somehwere!
at any rate i wil finsih reading it as i liked much White's bio of Genet and some of his other works--
perhaps any attempt to write about Rimbaud briefly is doomed--yet, i think not--
a slim volume like Kristin Ross's great Emergemnce of Social Space Rimabud and the Commune for example is a fantastic examination of R's uses of language--
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Jan 27, 2009 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Very engaging, relatively short, new biography of this very odd character--Rimbaud. I suspect more people find his life an interesting read rather than his poetry. I suppose that would include me...though his poetry--the few of his poems that I get anything from--is at time deeply affecting. At any rate, this biography seems well-researched and honest--something hard to come by in writing about Rimbaud's reckless and unusual life. But again, I suppose it is his unusual life that makes a Rimbaud...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Jean rated it 5 of 5 stars

Edmund White is a brilliant, modern stylist. All his work is both easy to read and elegant. This one, about the French poet Rimbaud, is short but a distillation of the essence of Rimbaud, leaving you wanting more.
Like everything Edmund White writes, there is a clear-eyed honesty about this. I really like ihe way he refuses to romanticise Rimbaud but also shows the man who spent a huge amount of his life at home with his mother.

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Jul 10, 2011 blake rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

"Even the slightly mad and very bohemian Nouveau prudently had referred to Rimbaud not by name but simply as "Thing" which later became a half-affectionate, half-derogatory reference in gay slang in English ("Miss Thing!")

this quot,e although not the highest example of White's prose in this biographical sketch, is a glimpse at the sober props of Rimbaud throughout the book. Wonderful read for literature-queer-rebel lovers.

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Dec 04, 2009 Lewis Manalo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Turning thirty-one is depressing because if you haven't become a professional athlete by that age, you know it's never going to happen. Similar could be said of turning nineteen: if you haven't become Arthur Rimbaud by that age, then it's never going to happen.

Edmund White's slim biography is pure entertainment with generous helpings of research and a dash of memoir. Rimbaud's biography is the stuff of literary legend: enfant terrible seducing an older poet, getting shot by said poet, walking aw...more

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Jan 21, 2009 Cat rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a Christmas present given to me because the gift giver knew that I would appreciate Rimbaud's rebellious nature... or as it was put to me, "Rimbaud is kinda a bad ass."

I do, and this book is full of tales of every aspect of Rimbaud's short lived writing career and some. Thumbs up if you have any interest in Rimbaud, Verlaine, the Communards or nineteenth century French poetry.

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Aug 25, 2011 Dave Whitaker rated it 5 of 5 stars

Although this book is very short (185 pages), it's a great read and provided me with a good overview of Rimbaud's (and Verlaine's) life together. I didn't know that Rimbaud became a gun-runner nor the circumstances of how he died until I read this book. Edmund White also examines some of Rimbaud's poetry and explains his importance...now I need to track down more of Rimbaud's poetry!

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Jul 27, 2011 cassandra rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction

informative on not only rimbaud's life (as a child, regarding family, and also with lovers; as a poet and as a businessman after denouncing his work as a poet) but also on the construct of his poetry as well. while the author has his own sentimental ties to his subject, the work on a whole shows rimbaud at his best as well as his worst.

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Jun 05, 2011 Cameron rated it 3 of 5 stars

Brief, somewhat underwhelming biography of Arthur Rimbaud. Although this is supposedly a pocket bio, White offers little psychological insight into the poet's seminal works and sticks rigidly to the major events in his life and work. That said, Rimbaud is one of the most compelling individuals in literature and his story is nothing short of fascinating.

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May 29, 2011 Vasha7 rated it 4 of 5 stars

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 after that.

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Feb 22, 2009 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Edmund White really captures Rimbuad and Verlaine in this relatively short (192 pp) book. Certainly not as detailed as Graham Robb's full-on bio, but you get a visceral sense of Rimbaud and Verlaine that goes even beyond what you got from the movie (Total Eclipse). It reads fast and easy.

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Jan 04, 2013 cemg rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an excellent introduction to the life of Arthur Rimbaud. I knew nothing of the actual facts of his biography before beginning (other than a general sense of his enfant terrible-ness), but White's text gives an easily readable and informative look, balancing analysis and narrative well. Heartily recommended for anyone interested in lives of poets – particularly beautiful, bored genius poets.

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Mar 31, 2013 Jim Wayland rated it 4 of 5 stars

Very enjoyable. I like a scholarly book that isn't afraid to reference James Dean as well as other more "literary" sources. Glad I read this before I read any other bios of Rimbaud.

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Feb 26, 2013 Sorobai rated it 3 of 5 stars

A very nice and concise introduction to the life of one of the greatest french poets. Taked in consideration is also the relatioship of Rimbaud with Verlaine.

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Jan 06, 2009 Jacob Dougherty rated it 4 of 5 stars

Edmund White is a great biographer- between this, his biography and Jean Genet, and the biographical nature of his last novel (about Stephen Crane's late life), I'm really impressed. He paints Rimbaud as a true rebel of his time, and of course can't resist interspersing tales from his own childhood (when he was obsessed with Rimbaud, of course. What budding gay author wasn't?)

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Dec 10, 2008 peaseblossom rated it 2 of 5 stars

Jere picked this up on a whim from the library. It's brief and doesn't really tell you much apart from the facts.

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