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Rimbaud

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Description for Rimbaud Paperback. An astute and engrossing biography from the author of Victor Hugo and Balzac. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 480.

Graham Robb's brilliant biography moves Rimbaud on from his perpetual adolescence where our imaginations have held him to show the extent of his transformations.

From phenomenally precocious schoolboy he became Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet, author of poems that range from the exquisite to the obscene. But this brief, five-year period as the enfant-terrible of French literature is only one small side of Rimbaud's story. Robb takes us on a biographical journey through three continents and many different identities.

Rimbaud emerges from this stunning work of biographical scholarship and historical imagination as an even more ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330488037
SKU
V9780330488037
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Robb Graham
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de ... Read more

Reviews for Rimbaud
Robb has written a great biography – scholarly, humane and above all marvelously entertaining.
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