Child, Artist, “Genie”: Self-portraits of the poet in Illuminations Enfant, artiste, Génie: Autoportraits du poète dans les Illuminations
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February 16, 2022
- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.5fa9b7...
- hal: hal-03579003
- doi: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12822-9.p.0049
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Yoshikazu Nakaji, « Child, Artist, “Genie”: Self-portraits of the poet in Illuminations », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12822-9.p.0049
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Abstract
Although the poems of Illuminations are essentially impersonal, fragments and refractions of autobiographical elements nevertheless make themselves felt. This article examines the self-representation of the prose poet Rimbaud from three perspectives: the sensibility of the child that emerges from the personal past to participate in the formation of a poetic world that is open to the fabulous; the artist who was in his time plagued by the tension between pride and public indifference; and the figure of the “genie,” who is both the emblem of immanent transcendence and that of the ideal poet projected into the future.
