The Time Of The Assassins: A Study Of Rimbaud
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good , ex-library
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Light pencil annotations throughout.
A passionate work of literary criticism and personal meditation, The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud presents Henry Miller's deeply subjective and fiercely intimate reckoning with the life and genius of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Miller argues that Rimbaud's tortured brilliance, his volcanic rejection of bourgeois society, and his ultimate abandonment of poetry represent not a failure but a supreme act of spiritual revolt — one that Miller sees as a mirror of his own artistic struggles. Written with the same raw, confessional intensity that defines Miller's fiction, the work blurs the boundary between biography and autobiography, using Rimbaud's life as a lens through which to examine the fate of the visionary artist in a hostile, materialistic world. The tone is urgent and prophetic, at times ecstatic, as Miller chronicles the arc of a poet who burned too brightly for the world to contain him. Readers drawn to unconventional literary criticism, the Symbolist tradition, or the Beat-era reverence for Rimbaud will find this an electrifying and indispensable text.
Author: Henry Miller
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Quartet Books
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good , ex-library
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Light pencil annotations throughout.
A passionate work of literary criticism and personal meditation, The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud presents Henry Miller's deeply subjective and fiercely intimate reckoning with the life and genius of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Miller argues that Rimbaud's tortured brilliance, his volcanic rejection of bourgeois society, and his ultimate abandonment of poetry represent not a failure but a supreme act of spiritual revolt — one that Miller sees as a mirror of his own artistic struggles. Written with the same raw, confessional intensity that defines Miller's fiction, the work blurs the boundary between biography and autobiography, using Rimbaud's life as a lens through which to examine the fate of the visionary artist in a hostile, materialistic world. The tone is urgent and prophetic, at times ecstatic, as Miller chronicles the arc of a poet who burned too brightly for the world to contain him. Readers drawn to unconventional literary criticism, the Symbolist tradition, or the Beat-era reverence for Rimbaud will find this an electrifying and indispensable text.