A nice piece on Arthur Rimbaud from Ellis Sharp. These are extracts, but the whole article is worth your attention.
Rimbaud provides the exemplary example of a writer who packs it all in. What is even more astonishing than this case of a writer who quits is how early, in his case, it happened. Before his [...]
The Writers’ Police, a collection of extracts from Parisian police files from 1879 through 1891, have been published by Bruno Fuligni. Fuligni, an employee at the French parliament who discovered and compiled the files, remarks on the vigour and thoroughness with which the writers of that era were spied upon by snitches and secret [...]
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