Preface to the re-edition of A-t-on lu Rimbaud?
In 1961 Jean-Jacques Pauvert published A-t-on lu Rimbaud ? (“Has Rimbaud been read?”). In 1971, he republished the work together with the additional text “L’affaire Rimbaud”. Without “driving the whole country mad”, as René Étiemble put it, the book still had some success and caused a bit of brainstorming. In it I showed that, notwithstanding his reputation, Rimbaud…