• Charles Nicholl on Rimbaud’s lost Africa years

  • Feb 18 2025
  • Durée: 1 h et 6 min
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Charles Nicholl on Rimbaud’s lost Africa years

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  • Arthur Rimbaud turned French poetry on its head in his late teens. His work influenced everyone from the modernists and the Beats to Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, but he wasn’t recognized or well-liked in his lifetime. He guzzled absinthe, sponged money off friends, and wrecked the life of fellow poet Paul Verlaine. And then he renounced poetry at age 20 and simply walked away.

    The last we hear of him, he’s somewhere in Africa living as a trader and gunrunner — and for a while, that was all we knew. The book we’re talking about today reveals what happened next.

    Charles Nicholl is the author of Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1890-91. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a recipient of the Hawthornden prize and has won the James Tait Black prize for biography.

    We spoke about the allure of Rimbaud the poet, his ‘lost years’ in Africa, and his late reputation as a traveler and Arabist.
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