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a new interpretation of a poet who has swayed the course of modern poetryin France and elsewhereJames Lawler focuses on what he demonstrates is the crux of Rimbaud's imagination: the masks and adopted personas with which he regularly tested his identity and his art.




A drama emerges in Lawler's urbane and resourceful reading, The thinking, feeling, acting Drunken Boat is an early theatrical projection of the poet's self the Inventor, the Memorialist, and the Ingnu assume distinct roles in his later verse.
It is, however, in Illuminations and Une Saison en enfer that Rimbaud enacts most powerfully his grandiose dreams.
Here the poet becomes Self Creator, SelfCritic, SelfIronist he takes the parts of Floodmaker, Oriental Storyteller, Dreamer, Lover and he recounts his descent into Hell in the guise of a Confessor.


In delineating and exploring the poet's theatre of the self Lawler shows us the tragic lucidity and the dramatic coherence of Rimbaud's

work.
James Lawler is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, He is the author of The Existentialist Marxism of Jean Paul Sartre, and IQ, Heritability, and Racism, as well as articles on Kant, Hegel, and Marx.
He is editor of: Dialectics of the U, S. Constitution: Selected Writings of Mitchell Franklin, to be published this year by MEP Press, Minnesota, .