Waubonsee Community College

Rimbaud and Jim Morrison, the rebel as poet, Wallace Fowlie

eng

Includes bibliographical references (page 127) and index

contains biographical information

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index present

non fiction

Rimbaud and Jim Morrison

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Wallace Fowlie

the rebel as poet

"...In "Rimbaud and Jim Morrison" Fowlie, a master of the form of the memoir, reconstructs the lives of the two youthful poets from a personal perspective. In their twinned stories he discovers an uncanny symmetry, a pattern far richer than the simple truth that both led lives full of adventure and both made poetry of their thirst for the liberation of the self. The result is an engaging account of the connections between an exceptional French symbolist who gave up writing poetry at the age of twenty, died young, and whose poems are still avidly read to this day, and an American rock musician whose brief career ignited an entire generation and has continued to fascinate millions around the world in the twenty years since his death in Paris. In this dual portrait, Fowlie gives us a glimpse of the affinities and resemblances between European literary traditions and American rock music and youth culture in the late twentieth century...--Back cover

I. My journal on the two rebel artists -- II. Rimbaud ; The myth of childhood ; The work of Rimbaud ; "Le bateau ivre: ; Une saison en enfer : the poet's destiny ; Interpretation : Rimbaud and Picasso ; Violence : Rimbaud and Nietzsche ; Les illuminations ; The poet and the angel ; Conclusion : Rimbaud in the Sorbonne -- III. Jim Morrison ; His life ; His death ; After his death ; Père-Lachaise -- Jim the poet -- IV. Conclusions ; Masks of the modern ; Antihero--Rimbaud and Jim Morrison

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