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Article: Rimbaud's first blood: le lai du lait de Cabaner.(Arthur Rimbaud)
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In this brief expose, I attempt to right a wrong of recent literary history, demonstrating that a scandalous episode from the youth of the immortal poete maudit Arthur Rimbaud involving a certain glass of milk, a certain bodily fluid, and the bohemian composer etienne Cabaner, recounted most recently in the authoritative biography by the celebrated Graham Robb, in fact never took place. Rimbaud is a seminal figure, the beau ideal for avant-garde artists from Picasso, Breton, and Cocteau to Kerouac, Dylan, and Jim Morrison, renowned as much for the extravagance of his life (especially his capacity as a young reprobate to epater les bourgeois, not least but not only by ...
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Rimbaud, Arthur.(Review) (book review) (book review)
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...Rimbaud: A Biography. Graham Robb. New York: Norton ... the French poet Arthur Rimbaud . . . ranks effortlessly ... style and interpretation. Robb is not simply writing ... detail. He describes Rimbaud during his years in Paris ...
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