Le Skyroom
22 E 60th St
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Edmund White, Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
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Thursday Nov 6, 2008 (7pm)
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$15
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A book signing with the two authors follows the discussion.
The sad-eyed muse of untold poets and writers, Arthur Rimbaud famously left the belles lettres after a prodigious adolescence for a life of gunrunning and adventure. In a new biography, Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel, celebrated critic Edmund White returns to everyone's favorite poète maudit, whose swashbuckling verse, personality, and escapades assured his place beyond academia's hallways. Alongside White, Pulitzer-Prize-nominated critic Francine du Plessix Gray adds a feminine perspective to tonight's discussion as she touts her tome on the Romantic's rebel-in-petticoats, Madame de Staël. The "first modern woman," de Staël's page-turning life includes being banished by Napoleon and hobnobbing with royalty and the literary elite, like Byron and Goethe.
