{"product_id":"rimbaud-the-son-9780300172652","title":"Rimbaud the Son","description":"\u003cb\u003eA radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography could\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRimbaud the Son\u003c\/i\u003e, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation on the life of a legend as witnessed by his contemporaries, those who knew him before the legends took hold. Michon introduces us to Rimbaud the son, friend, schoolboy, renegade, drunk, sexual libertine, visionary, and ultimately poet. Michon focuses no less on the creative act: What presses a person to write? To pursue excellence? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author dramatizes the life of a genius whose sufferings are enormous while his ambitions are transcendent, whose life is lived with utter intensity and purpose but also disorder and dissolution--as if the very substance of life is its undoing. \u003ci\u003eRimbaud the Son\u003c\/i\u003e is now masterfully translated into English, enabling a wide new audience to discover for themselves the author \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e called \"one of the best-kept secrets of modern French prose.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-233216\"\u003ePierre Michon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.05w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300172652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300172656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC041000\"\u003eBiographical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePierre Michon\u003c\/b\u003e is an author of high acclaim in France and Europe. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, \u003ci\u003eSmall Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, and of the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work. He lives in France. \u003cb\u003eJody Gladding\u003c\/b\u003e, a poet and translator, has translated over twenty books from the French. \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Deshays\u003c\/b\u003e is a teacher, translator, and specialized horticulturalist. In 2009 Gladding and Deshays won the Florence Gould French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Pierre Michon's \u003ci\u003eSmall Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44579461857517,"sku":"9780300172652","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_c109ba07-b4df-4c2c-8c95-55f54d41215b.jpg?v=1702061184","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/rimbaud-the-son-9780300172652","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}