Biography of Rimbo Poet

Born on October 20 in Charleville, the Department of Ardenne in the north of the East of France. The second child in the family of Captain Frederick Rimbao and his wife Maria Katrin Vitali to a nee Kuif, who came from a simple peasant family. Father threw his wife and five children when the boy was four years old. From early childhood he experienced need and deprivation.

Attended classes in local primary school; In the spring he entered the college of Charleville. Over the year, I mastered a two -year curriculum. Showed interest in poetry. At the age of 15, he received a prize for an essay in Latin. He studied poetic skill with his teacher Georges Izambar. By the age of 16 he created more than twenty poetic works, some of which were published in the magazine Modern Parnassus.

In his youth, Rimbao repeatedly ran away from the house, vagranced in northern France and Belgium. He fought on the barricades of the Paris commune in the same place he was addicted to alcohol. Relatives and relatives sharply condemned Rimboy for open neglect of the norms of bourgeois morality. A childhood friend Ernest Delae claimed: "He was despised for money, shamefully earned, for disgusting actions described in the smallest details." In early September, Rimbo sent P.

Verlen samples of his poetic works to feed. After reading the ballad “drunk ship” “Le Bateau Ivre”, P. Verlaine was so delighted that he immediately invited the young man to Paris. Their first meeting took place on September 10 and laid the foundation for a stormy three -year novel, the complete boiling of “cruel passions”. Rimbo settled in the family apartment of P.

Verlene on Nicola Street, despite his youth, he unceremoniously pushed P. Verlain and frankly dared the hostess. Joint accommodation immediately led to a conflict. For some time he wandered among the acquaintances of T. Banville, Sh. Kro, artist J. Foreen and others. Friends arranged noisy gatherings, spent time driving. During a comic brawl, Rimbaeus wounded Verlaine with a knife. Their reputation in the eyes of the respectable bourgeois was seriously affected.

Members of the Parisian literary circle in shame expelled Verlaine and Rimba from their ranks; Newspaper reporters called the "bad boys" "Vilains Bonshommes". A month later, we moved to London, where they settled in a cheap hotel at Hawland Street, 34 - earned a living with French lessons. The relationship was overshadowed by drunken quarrels and mutual jealousy.

The friends diverged several times and converged again. The dramatic denouement occurred on July 10 The drunken Paul Verlaine twice shot at Rimbo from a revolver and wounded him in the wrist. Rimbo returned to his mother in Charles. In July, he published a collection of poems in prose “One Summer in hell” “Une Saison En Enfer” dedicated to Paul Verlen.

He completed the poetic cycle of “insight” “Les Illuminations”, the meeting ended with a final break, because Rimbae persisted in his beliefs and did not want to repent of perfect sins.

The final period of his life Rimbo was held in constant wanderings. He practically did not engage in poetic creativity. In May, he recruited to the Dutch colonial army. He served in the small town of Salatig on the island of Java in Indonesia, where a memorial plaque in his memory has now been installed. Two years later, Rimbo returned to France. In December, he got a job dispatcher in Larnaca, Cyprus.

I was ill with a typhoid fever. He went to Yemen as an agent of the Bardai trading company. With the trade in coffee, spices, porcelain, etc., in all likelihood, he participated in the illegal supplies of weapons and mercenaries for the Ethiopian king Shoa Menelik II. One of the first Europeans penetrated the previously inaccessible province of Ethiopia Ogaden. Meanwhile, the name of Rimbao gained wide fame in France.

The poetic cycle of “insight” firmly approved the reputation of the genius and the “terrible child” “Unfant Terrible” for the Rimboy. According to eyewitnesses, Rimbo was completely indifferent to news of his literary glory. He continued to lead a random lifestyle, regardless of a deterioration in health. In February, Rimbo had pain in the right knee. Doctors of one of Marseille hospitals made Rimbo diagnosis of bone cancer.

After the operation, Rimbo intended to return to Africa, but died on November 10 in Marseille. The body is devoted to the earth in the family cemetery in Charleville.