Rimbaud-Verlaine - O Estranho Casal

The Seven Narrators:

Arthur Rimbaud: A meteor. He dazzled French literature like a prodigy. Between the ages of sixteen and twenty, he wrote everything that today incites the greatest astonishment. He lived and fought with Verlaine. Afterwards, the world was almost not enough for him: he rushed through it with "soles of wind," unstoppable until his exile in Harar. He created an Abyssinia in prose, with arms trafficking and perhaps slave trafficking. A cancerous tumor in his knee returned him to Marseille, where he died in 1891. In total, 37 years of age.

Paul Verlaine: A tempestuous drama, fermented with verbal violence and gunshots, is born in the words and innocence of some letters. There had been wanderings for two – passionate and complicated with absinthe: Paris, Brussels, and London. The great poet was already ruining a marriage and preparing to collect a good number of hospitals and prisons. […]

Ernest Delahaye: Rimbaud's closest friend since their school days in Charleville […]. He was responsible for the poet's first, unsuccessful, attempt to publish. […]

Mathilde Verlaine: A marriage with Verlaine would have been fraught with difficulties, despite the elegies of La Bonne Chanson. Mathilde, however, lives through her turmoil as the heroine of a dark romance, sparing no shadow on the portrait of Rimbaud that would later emerge from the pages of Mémoires de Ma Vie (1935). […]

Mme Rimbaud: Widowed by a living husband, she steers the ship of her four children with an iron rudder, demands severity from Catholicism, and dissolves maternal love into bitter gall. […]

Mme Verlaine: Early in her marriage, she manages to have a child. Paul grew accustomed to seeing three fetuses watching over him in large bottles of ether, kept by maternal morbidity on a shelf as a testament to a drama of three failures that preceded him. […]

Isabelle Rimbaud: The youngest of five children [...]. She would later show herself to be energetic and temperamental, inherited from her mother. […] In 1895, with a flash of great intellectual lucidity, she authorized the impure Verlaine to write the preface to her brother's Poésies Complètes.