랭보의 침묵과 <지옥에서의 한 철>의 분서(焚書)

Abstract

This study reexamines the silence of Rimbaud, a traditional and outdated problem, generated by his sister Isabelle Rimbaud, and metamorphosed into Rimbaud’s myth of silence. She distorts the author's thinking, claiming that he renounces poetry immediately after the publication of A Sseason in Helll, and that the poet himself definitively burns all the copies before her eyes. Etiemble, Bouillane de Lacoste, Yves Reboul, Lefrèree, etc., reexamined and criticized the problem of Isabelle Rimbaud’s argument on book burning and the myth of Rimbaud's silence, but we do not sufficiently recognize its interpretive importance and its risk in the reading of Rimbaud’s poetry. Many people tend to believe that Rimbaud gave up poetry in complete silence, with the farewell of A Sseason in Hell, and burned all its print editions. But this legend is far removed from the truth, because in 1901, Belgian bibliophile, Léon Losseau, discovered all the print editions of A Sseason in Hell that the author had neither paid for nor burned. It is on this truth that this study seeks to reconsider Isabelle's letters as well as her fallacious claims that lead to Rimbaud's myth of silence. Further investigation of Rimbaud’s poetic silence to disclose the essentials of his poetry is required rather than accepting the perspective of Rimbaud’s myth of silence.