num_pages: 555
description: '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.
language: English
title: Rimbaud
titlecomplete: Rimbaud
characters: Arthur Rimbaud
genres: Biography, France, History, Art, Reference, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Poetry, LGBT
ratings_count: 1010
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Picador