It is relevant in this case, and so we want to emphasize the details in the life of the great French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who had a life given to the letters, but in the same way with rough moments, which, can be even today scandalous.
Twentieth century, Rimbaud and music
His poems and writings are considered, classics of world literature, marked the twentieth century profoundly, being taken as an icon in the world of art in all aspects, by emblematic figures the musical field, his work shattered the art in general.
Artists of the stature of Jim Morrison and Patty Smith, as well as Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Tom waits are only five of the singers who were influenced by the work of Rimbaud.
"All poets are children of him, after him; And no one can fully comprehend it, "Andre Breton sentenced" if he lived in our time, he would be on Mount Olympus of the Rock gods, along with Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan... and people like that. Because it has all the components: it was experimental, irreverent but spiritual, a visionary. Brilliant, but he divided his brilliance: at the same time he wanted people to understand his work, he saw these people with total contempt. That same schism was in Kurt Cobain and that was certainly visually appealing. When I was 16 I thought it was beautiful... He also served as an imaginary boyfriend. "
Patti Smith
Rimbaud seen by other poets
It is of such importance is his work that he ubico within the branch of the Cursed poets, like Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Stéphan Mallarmé, Tristan Corbière, Jules Laforgue and Charles Cros, creators whose works were irreverent in their postures, provoking This way a revolution in the literature. In 1870 begins a friendship with Georges Izambard, who was his teacher, this lends him some books, among which is the wretches of Victor Hugo. Rimbaud reads the book in secret from his mother. At this time it is when he writes his first poetic writing, which he would call "the bonuses of the Orphans" in January 1870. He was the leader of the Parnasianos to publish his writings in the literary magazine
"The Contemporary Parnassus". However, although he gives an affectionate answer to his motion, he does not grant him the desire to publish his work in the magazine.
This phrase speaks much of his universe, and inner hell:
I should have a hell for my wrath, a hell for my pride, and the hell of caresses; A concert of Hells.
The point of view of Cortazar on Rimbaud.
"There is a difference not always noticed between the Rimbaud that writes the Lettre du Voyant and the Rimbaud of the later years, until the hour of the silence. Any reflection of aesthetic order, any method explicitly revealed, are transmuted directly into work. It does not always correspond to those. It seems as though, even in possession of the key, he will throw himself out the window. The poems, from then on, are travel diaries. And what a trip! It does not seem to me, against the opinion of Maritain and others, that Rimbaud would seek an absolute of poetry. I have always thought that his descent into hell — "Je me croissant en enfer, donc j'y suis" — was an attempt to find the life his nature demanded of him. Despair, insult, bitterness, all that revolt him before the contemplation of the bourgeois existence that he is obliged to bear, is proof that in him there is a man anxious to live; Otherwise he would have followed a method of elimination or stoicism, withdrawal and disdainful silence. What a Amiel did, Rimbaud rejects it, because he feels with strength to fight, he wants to open a path through hell, through poetry, and finally achieve the conquest of his own self, free of unbearable conditions."
Julio Cortazar