structure

  • published in 2000

  • translated in German but not in French

  • biography

  • written in chronical order, like a documentary

  • consists 4 parts with a certain number of chapters

  • information about every period of his life

  • not easy to read

  • detailed

  • many citations

  • Arthur Rimbaud's life, history of France, spirit of the time (1850-1900)

  • known as a poet, rebel against the bourgeois, idol

  • informations about investigation and other biographers