A thrilling ride through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.
The 1870s in France – Rimbaud’s
moment, and the subject of this book – is a decade virtually ignored in
most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two
significant spatial events: France’s expansion on a global scale, and,
in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune – the
construction of the revolutionary urban space.
Arguing that space, as a
social fact, is always political and strategic, Kristin Ross has written
a book that is at once a history and geography of the Commune’s
anarchist culture – its political language and social relations, its
values, strategies, and stances.
