Article: The elaborations: Rimbaud at the mercy of biographers.(Arthur Rimbaud)

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Rimbaud: A Biography, by Graham Robb. W.W. Norton, 2001.551 pages. $18.95.

Arthur Rimbaud: Presence of an Enigma, by Jean-Luc Steinmetz. Translated by Jon Graham. Welcome Rain, 2001. 464 pages. $20.

Arthur Rimbaud, by Jean-Jacques Lefrere. Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2001. 1,240 pages. 44,5 Euros.

In the autumn of 1873, Arthur Rimbaud, age nineteen, arrived at his family home in northeastern France bearing a large bundle. It contained nearly 500 copies of his longest completed work, a 7,000-word prose poem entitled Une Saison en enfer. The bundle originated in the Typographical Alliance of M.-J. Poot and Company, ...

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