The fall of the nineteenth century resurrects one of the most ancient and powerful myth in human imaginary: the end of the world. Political and military struggles, social and cultural metamorphoses, technical and scientific progress disrupt common representations, melting enthusiasm and anxiety. Artists echo this apocalyptic feeling. Rimbaud is one of them : from his first poems to Illuminations, the end of the world feed his work linking collective and private anguishes.
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