Résumé du livre

Klappentext Germain Nouveau (1851-1920)! poet and painter! friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine! discreet disciple of Mallarme! led a vie de boheme while composing poems of both religious and erotic inspiration. This book is both a biographical study and an introduction to the works of a long-neglected poet whose calligraphy is to be found in the manuscript of Rimbaud's famous Illuminations. Breton! Aragon! and Eluard acknowledged their debt to this undervalued precursor of French Surrealism. Zusammenfassung Germain Nouveau (1851-1920)! poet and painter! friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine! discreet disciple of Mallarme! led a vie de boheme while composing poems of both religious and erotic inspiration. This book is both a biographical study and an introduction to the works of a long-neglected poet.