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Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud (Charleville, 1854 - Marsiglia, 1891) è il poeta che con Charles Baudelaire e Gérard de Nerval ha più contribuito alla trasformazione del linguaggio della poesia moderna. L’opera di Rimbaud comincia con versi legati per arrivare al verso libero e alla poesia in prosa. Ma ciò che in Baudelaire era enunciato con la compostezza degli alessandrini e trasparenti simbolismi, in Rimbaud diventa lirica che attinge alla libertà dell’immaginario, ai sensi, alla visione irreale. L’ordine sintattico ne risulta spezzato, il ritmo ricreato al di là della tradizione. In Rimbaud «lo sguardo poetico penetra attraverso una realtà coscientemente frantumata fin nel vuoto del mistero» scrive Hugo Friedrich.

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 after assembling his last major work, Illuminations.
Rimbaud was a libertine and a restless soul, having engaged in a hectic, sometimes violent romantic relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, which lasted nearly two years. After his retirement as a writer, he traveled extensively on three continents as a merchant and explorer until his death from cancer just after his thirty-seventh birthday. As a poet, Rimbaud is well known for his contributions to symbolism and, among other works, for A Season in Hell, a precursor to modernist literature.

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