Panorama des manuscrits rimbaldiens et le « Livre païen ou Livre nègre »

While the vast majority of manuscripts by Arthur Rimbaud which we have are in definitive form, the lone manuscript which can be truly considered from a genetic perspective is Une saison en enfer. The “Livre païen ou Livre nègre”, such described in a letter dated “Mai [18]73”, leaves its reader with the indelible sense that this ulitmately abandoned project was perhaps entirely distinct from Une saison en enfer – a work in which it may figure in whole or in part.