NP? Rimbaud

[Monica Belevan]

Rimbaud stands alone. To me at least. He personifies the decandent spirit.

Attention to other such wunderkinds of the same era and arguable 
equivalence-- Raymond Radiguet ( check Cocteau on him) and Isidore Ducasse, 
who was born, accidentally, in Montevideo and was later an enigmatic, 
reclusive unrecorded decadent known as the Comte de Lautreamont.

--Monica

>From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: NP? Rimbaud
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:03:59 -0700
>
>Graham Robb's recent biography of Rimbaud does a good job at fleshing out
>this split.  The faux-beatnik bourgeois  were stunned and shocked and
>scandalized by nitty-gritty Rimbaud, who eventually turned his back on the
>Paris scene and fled to the colonies for a bizarre Kurtz-like finish. A
>very entertaining biography, highly recommended.
>
>gregory pierrot :
> > dÈcadence in French poetry is more of the Parnassians, the
> >"art for art's sake" people, who might have admired poËtes maudits,
> >and Verlaine was pretty close to them (until buddy Rimbaud scorned
> >them that is), but what they really were were bourgeois and nobles
> >like Barbey d'Aurevilly,




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