RIMBAUD by Graham Robb ( 9780330488037 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

RIMBAUD

By:

Graham Robb

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£20.00

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£14.60

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£5.40

ISBN 10:

0330488031

ISBN 13:

9780330488037

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Publisher:

PAN MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

1 September, 2001

Pages:

416

Description:

An astute and engrossing biography from the author of Victor Hugo and Balzac.

Synopsis:

'Robb has written a great biography - scholarly, humane and above all marvelously entertaining' - "Guardian". 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-terible 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 complex, ambiguous and fascinating figure than ever before.

Illustrations:

Illustrations, facsims., ports.

Publication:

Imprint:

Picador

Prizes:

Winner of Enid McLeod Literary Award 2000

Returns:

Returnable

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