Autorzy | |
Wydawnictwo | Faber Factory |
Data wydania | 25/05/2021 |
Forma publikacji | eBook: Reflowable eTextbook (ePub) |
Język | angielski |
ISBN | 9781780601830 |
Kategorie | Biografia: literaci |
In 1880 a taciturn young Frenchman arrives at the Yemeni port of Aden, where he finds work as a foreman in a coffee warehouse. He is the poet and enfant terrible Arthur Rimbaud, author of A Season in Hell – a notorious figure in France but now, at the age of twenty five, determined to start a new life. In this atmospheric study of Rimbaud’s ‘lost years’, Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of his life as a trader, explorer and gun-runner in East Africa. We follow his trail in Somalia and Djibouti, in the highlands of Ethiopia, in the souks of Cairo: a man on the run from his past, living out his famous teenage pronouncement, ‘Je est un autre’ – I is somebody else.
Somebody Else