![]() ![]() I shall give her a few thalers and she will take the dow now at Rasali for Obok, where she will go wherever she wishes. That seems highly unlikely, but he was not above the idea of owning slaves, and in ''Rimbaud'' Pierre Petitfils quotes again his well-known request to another merchant to find him ''a very good mule and two slave boys.'' He had lived for several years with an Abyssinian woman (according to another woman who knew Rimbaud's household well, she was a Roman Catholic, wore European clothes and was ''very fond of smoking cigarettes''), but when the chance to run guns into the interior presented itself, and a domestic tie might have been an encumbrance, Rimbaud wrote in a letter: ''I have dismissed that woman permanently. The route his caravan followed had been a secret, a slave route, and it has been claimed that Rimbaud went so far as to traffic in slaves himself. There were complaints about the treatment of the animals in his caravans and, whether or not he was directly responsible for those particular abuses, it was well known that he had poisoned many dogs around Harar because they fouled the animal skins drying outside his warehouses and that sheep and hyenas - and Greeks, it was said - had also died of the poison. He referred contemptuously to the Africans. His view of Africa, as it appears in his actions and letters, was essentially that of a European mercenary adventurer. Yet he was by then totally involved in the invasion himself, and dependent on it for his livelihood and worldly hopes. And it is said that the Spanish, too, are about to occupy one of the ports around the straits! Every government has sunk millions (in all a few billions) along these accursed, desolate coasts, where the natives wander for months on end without food and water, in the most terrible climate on the face of the earth.'' The British in Egypt, the Italians at Messewa, the French at Obok, the British at Berbera, etc. At the beginning of that year he had written to his mother in northern France of the prevalent poverty and the danger of famine throughout the region, saying: ''It is the invasion of Europeans from all quarters that has brought this on. $34.95.Ī hundred years ago Arthur Rimbaud was in East Africa, just back from taking a caravan of 200 camels - laden with assorted merchandise that included Remington rifles on their way to the Abyssinian province of Shoa - from Aden to Harar. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. As a poet, Rimbaud is well known for his contributions to symbolism and, among other works, for A Season in Hell, a precursor to modernist literature.LEAD: RIMBAUD By Pierre Petitfils. ![]() After his retirement as a writer, he traveled extensively on three continents as a merchant and explorer until his death from cancer. After assembling his last major work, Illuminations, Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 years in 1874.Ī hectic, violent romantic relationship, which lasted nearly two years at times, with fellow poet Paul Verlaine engaged Rimbaud, a libertine, restless soul. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. He started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian war. With known transgressive themes, he influenced modern literature and arts, prefiguring. Aft Hallucinatory work of French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud strongly influenced the surrealists. A hectic, violent romantic relationship, which lasted nearly two years at times, with fellow poet Paul Verlaine engaged Rimbaud, a libertine, restless soul. After assembling his last major work, Illuminations, Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 years in 1874. ![]() Hallucinatory work of French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud strongly influenced the surrealists. ![]()
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