Regards en coin et mains tendues Notes sur les collaborations (rêvées, effectives, avortées) de Rimbaud

Throughout his literary trajectory, one catches sight of numerous attempts at collaborative projects in Rimbaud’s opus: such attempts take on some occasions the form of an explicit request and on others they take the form of effective participation in a collective project. Yet these collaborative forays never last long with Arthur Rimbaud, frequently ending in disappointment between interlocutors and ruptures due in no small part to Rimbaud’s tendency to disregard the dominant literary and social codes of the late nineteenth-century.