Though Rimbaud was an avid reader of Latin and Greek poetry, there are few traces of Ovid in his opus. This essay proposes a reading of the prose poem “Barbare” in parallel with Ovid’s late work, written in exile, Tristia. Without going so far as to see in the latter an intertexual source for the former, we aim to show how reading the one with the other sheds new light on some of the darkest corners of the Illuminations.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques