At the age of nineteen Arthur Rimbaud committed suicide, not in the
flesh but as a writer. At that point he had composed a body of
poetry now ranked among the classics of France and of the world. He
never wrote another line. He cut himself not only from literature
but from his native country and from European civilization, and
lost himself in the inaccessible mountains of North Africa. When he
reappeared it was to die, in torment, in a hospital on the coast.
Further research has reconstructed the 'lost' life of this
extraordinary man and his amazing second career. Traveling as a
trader under terrible difficulties, he acted unknowingly as a
pioneer agent of the French Empire. The routes he discovered became
military and commercial highways of the French Empire in North
Africa. Jean Marie Carre has written the first complete and
authoritative biography of this genius and adventurer. It opens the
mystery of Rimbaud's renunciation, a profound research into a
tortured soul woven into a powerful narrative of his adventures in
Africa. Also included in this volume is a translation of Rimbaud's
moving spiritual autobiography A Season in Hell.
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