by Henri Troyat · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080669285
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«Verlaine» is the biography of the French poet Paul Verlaine written by Henri Troyat, published by Flammarion in paperback (479 pages, in French).
The biography traces the life of Paul Verlaine: his bourgeois childhood, his job at Paris City Hall, his marriage to Mathilde Mauté and his stormy relationship with Arthur Rimbaud, which drags him into alcoholism, poverty and prison; Troyat contrasts the delicacy of his poetry with his outbursts and portrays his final decline.
Work published in 1993, part of the Grandes biographies collection; the edition includes bibliographic references (pp. 465-467) and an index.
Readers of literary biographies interested in nineteenth-century French poetry and the figure of Paul Verlaine.
Henri Troyat was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist.
