It is indeed "Somebody Else", Charles Nicholls, Pub Vintage, £7.99
At 28/07/98 15:27:56, [log in to unmask] wrote:
# A note, noting that the same Jeremy Harding who wrote a
# praiseworthy review of Conductors of Chaos for the London Review of
# Books has a long and worthwhile review-essay in that same journal`s
# current number, based upon Charles Nicholl`s very good book, Someone
# Else, about Rimbaud`s career in Africa.
# I can recommend Someone Else (hang on, is it Somebody Else? I think
# it`s Somebody Else.) in its own right. Far from being some bone-dry
# account of a huckster who used to write poems: the first five
# chapters or so offer an excellent digest of the available biographies
# covering the poet`s first twenty or so years on this earth. And the
# book`s not long out in paperback, with some good photographs too,
# including the cover, one of the portraits of the black Rimbaud
# which so thrilled the Surrealists.
#
# robin
#
Roger
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