'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