Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)

A French poet and a genuine enfant terrible. Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 at Charleville and died in 1891 at Marseille. More than a literary heritage, Arthur Rimbaud also leaves us with the closest archetype of what marginality and bohemian life are. If he stopped writing poetry at the age of only 20, he leaves behind two collections which are still extremely important today:: Les illuminations and Une saison en enfer.

Besides his works of a great modernity he is remembered for his escapades, of every type of genre, his homosexual adventures with Paul Verlaine, but also his voyages to Africa, where he was an explorer and a merchant.