Oeuvres de Arthur Rimbaud: Vers et proses / Revues sur les manuscrits originaux et les premières éditions mises en ordre et annotées par Paterne Berrichon; poèmes retrouvés

The volume gathers early violent lyrics, luminous prose poems of hallucinatory imagery, and an extended confessional prose work, together with fragments and recovered pieces. The poems register restless youth, erotic longing, and linguistic audacity, while the prose pieces enact a deliberate method of visionary perception that transmutes ordinary language into synesthetic metaphor and interior music. Recurring concerns are a spiritual quest and revolt against conventional morality, the search for an original sensory truth, and the limits of expression; editorial notes and a prefatory commentary orient the reader and trace the poet's aesthetic development.