Baudelaire, Rimbaud's star

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Figaro Hors-Série "Baudelaire, le spleen de la modernité"

Le Figaro Hors-Série "Baudelaire, the spleen of modernity" Le Figaro

In the history of literature, Arthur Rimbaud appears as a meteor, a prodigy without equivalent and without rival, with the exception, perhaps, of Lautréamont. He began to write in 1869, at the age of fifteen, and completed

his last poems, in 1874. At the age of twenty, he completed his hallucinatory work, and consequently seemed to lose interest in poetry, like if he was aware that his crazy enterprise to

by the power of the verb ended in failure. Until the end of his - he died in Marseille on November 10, 1891, at the age of thirty-seven, from general cancer after having had his right leg amputated - he would be

seized with a craving for freedom,

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