Henry Miller - The Time of the Assassins: a Study of Rimbaud
"In Rimbaud," writes Miller, "I see myself as in a mirror."
“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education
a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals” ― Henry Miller, The Time of the Assassins: a Study of Rimbaud
Henry Miller on François Rabelais, Poe and Baudelaire
Henry Miller did not hear Rimbaud's name until he was thirty-six years old; he did not glance at his work until six or seven years later,
around the age of forty-three; and it was not until he was fifty-two years old that Miller learned the details of Rimbaud's remarkable life,
for in that year Miller read both Jean-Marie Carre's "A Season in Hell" and Enid Starkie's "Rimbaud". In less than four short years,
before reaching the age of twenty, Rimbaud articulated a radical new view of the role of the poet, wrote poems of startling imagination
(including "Le Bateau Ivre", "Une Saison en Enfer" and "Illuminations") and lived a life of archetypal bohemian rebellion, in these few years,
became the precursor of both French symbolism and other literary modernisms. Rimbaud's renunciation of the life of the poet made him a "living suicide".
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“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education
a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals” ― Henry Miller, The Time of the Assassins: a Study of Rimbaud
Henry Miller on François Rabelais, Poe and Baudelaire
Click to viewHenry Miller did not hear Rimbaud's name until he was thirty-six years old; he did not glance at his work until six or seven years later,
around the age of forty-three; and it was not until he was fifty-two years old that Miller learned the details of Rimbaud's remarkable life,
for in that year Miller read both Jean-Marie Carre's "A Season in Hell" and Enid Starkie's "Rimbaud". In less than four short years,
before reaching the age of twenty, Rimbaud articulated a radical new view of the role of the poet, wrote poems of startling imagination
(including "Le Bateau Ivre", "Une Saison en Enfer" and "Illuminations") and lived a life of archetypal bohemian rebellion, in these few years,
became the precursor of both French symbolism and other literary modernisms. Rimbaud's renunciation of the life of the poet made him a "living suicide".
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