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Rimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation on the life of a legend as witnessed by his contemporaries, those who knew him before the legends took hold. Michon introduces us to Rimbaud the son, friend, schoolboy, renegade, drunk, sexual libertine, visionary, and ultimately poet. Michon focuses no less on the creative act: what presses a person to write? To pursue excellence? The author dramatizes the life of a genius whose sufferings are enormous while his ambitions are transcendent, whose life is lived with utter intensity and purpose but also disorder and dissolution - as if the very substance of life is its undoing. Rimbaud the Son is now masterfully translated into English, enabling a wide new audience to discover for themselves the author Publishers Weekly called 'one of the best-kept secrets of modern French prose.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Rimbaud the Son
• Author: Pierre Michon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780300172652
• ISBN: 0300172656
• ID: 01989517
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 120 g
• Dimensions: 194 × 128 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. October 2013

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