BEDERE SERGE GEORGES IZAMBARD, QUIET BUT ACTIVE WITNESS OF THE BEGINNING OF RIMBAUD'S WRITING

The advent of Rimbaud as an author happens early, when he is just 17. He is caught in a dialectical argument about acknowledgement with Georges Izambard, the first reader of his poetry. Izambard recognizes its worth and serves as a go-between, without backing out from the encounter with Rimbaud, the suffering adolescent. He is a quiet witness to the turbulences of a teenager and the birth of a poet. Going over the dynamics of the weaving and unweaving of this relationship is of great interest for the study of teenagers.

Mots clés Author, Subject, Writing, Go-between, Quiet witness.