The Engine of Silence: Deconstructing Arthur Rimbaud

Boris Kriger’s philosophical and literary study reinterprets the radical life and poetic evolution of Arthur Rimbaud. The sources analyze Rimbaud’s famous declaration that "I is someone else" through a tripartite methodology combining biographical deconstruction, textual document analysis, and the phonetic study of poetry in both French and English. Furthermore, the text contrasts Rimbaud’s meteoric literary output as an adolescent with his later decades as a silent trader in Africa, exploring whether his ultimate renunciation of poetry was a triumph of freedom or the end of a linguistic fiction. Ultimately, the work serves as a bilingual critical examination of identity, examining how a brilliant young writer systematically dismantled classical rules of verse before abandoning literature entirely.