by Jean-Louis Michon · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070388080
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«Rimbaud le fils» is the literary essay by Pierre Michon in paperback (109 pages, in French), published in the Folio collection by Gallimard.
Pierre Michon does not write a biography of Rimbaud nor does he intend to add a chapter to existing hagiographies: he slips into the poet's personality and the intimacy of his writing to ask what drives a man to write and seek excellence. With doubts and detours, he traverses, comments, dreams and abandons Arthur Rimbaud's adventure, without resolving anything, but drawing closer to its mystery.
The work was originally published in 1993; this paperback edition dates from 1998 and belongs to the Folio collection by Gallimard.
For readers of French literature and essays who want to approach Arthur Rimbaud through a personal perspective rather than a conventional biography.
Pierre Michon is a French writer. His first novel, Small Lives (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for Small Lives and for The Origin of the World (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. He won the 2017 International Nonino Prize in Italy.With an oeuvre consisting of a stunning confessional novel—Vies minuscules (1984)—and a series of Plutarch-like "lives" devoted to famous artists and poets, Michon commands respect as a sensitive author and gifted stylist who seeks to comprehend how we can make sense out of the irrepressible impulses and unavoidable failures that fill our lives. Whether he is charting the misfortunes of the lowly, portraying his own difficult rise from rural poverty and a broken family to the completion of his first book, or plunging into the destinies of Watteau, Goya, Rimbaud, or Van Gogh, Michon poignantly captures the essence of the compelling courses our lives take.
