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|title=Disaster was my God

|author=Bruce Duffy

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1846685286

|pages=356

|publisher=Clerkenwell Press

|date=November 2011

|summary=The scandalous life of the French poet and original 'fin-de-siecle' punk Arthur Rimbaud is source of constant fascination to anyone interested in French literature, and the birth of alternative youth culture. Duffy's dramatic fictional biography explores Rimbaud's early years as a child prodigy and his outrageous youth, and then in complete contradiction as a colonialist trader in sub-Saharan Africa.

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It is very hard to find any other book which really compares with this - indeed Duffy has made the 'fictional biography' something of a personal genre ('The World As I Found It' being based on the life of Wittgenstein). But all biographies of historical characters are something of a leap into the imaginative, in order to link the facts and remains as we have them. Another book which attepmpts to understand a very complex and not always likeable literary character [[The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle by Russell Miller]] has a great deal to recommend it.

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