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.
ISBN: | 9780393322675 |
Publication date: | 28th September 2012 |
Author: | Graham Robb |
Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 588 pages |
Genres: |
Biography: general |