RIMBAUDMANIA explores this unique phenomenon in literature and even outside literature.

Ten manuscripts of poetries and letters will be presented . They come from very prestigious institutions as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, the Rimbaud Museum and the Media center Voyelles from Charleville. Among others, the famous “Letter of the Seer” will be showed for the first time to the public. Also shown, masterworks by great masters like Picasso, Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Jim Dine….
Starting from the origins, rare manuscripts and photographs, the exhibition will follow the growth of the notoriety and the universal presence of Rimbaud, from the intellectual circles to the popular mass. Around 350 objects, works and documents will reveal the fields concerned: publishing, translation, illustration, comics, press, theatre, painting, sculpture, opera, classical music, rock and roll, fashion, advertising, decoration, the street art …until the final contemporary multimedia explosion.

An amazing collection
The audacity of this exhibition relies on the association of major arts and popular ones, masterpieces and ingenuous objects, the precious and the ordinary, the poetic and the prosaic, the branded and the anonymous….since Arthur Rimbaud do not divide  but unifies society. He is for everyone, intellectual or not, rich or poor, old or young. From this closeness springs up the strength of the universal myth.
Altogether, these elements constitute the biggest ephemeral collection about Rimbaud ever collected. The poet appears really as a fundamental actor of our culture. Every generation renews the vision and thus adapt the message to our changing world, diverse but always meaningful, surely different of what Rimbaud could have imagine.

The book
Rimbaudmania, the eternity of an icon (1891-2010)
By Claude Jeancolas
Foreword by Edgar Morin
Co-edition Paris-bibliothèques and Textuel
320 pages, 350 illustrations, 39 euros

Claude Jeancolas
Writer and historian of art, he has published yet seventeen books about Arthur Rimbaud. He is recognized today, worldwide, as one of the best specialists of the poet. Among the publications which contributed to his fame: The Rimbaud dictionary (Balland), The Rimbaud complete work in manuscripts (Textuel), The Rimbaud manuscript letters (Textuel), Rimbaud, the biography (Flammarion) Vitalie Rimbaud, for the love of a son (Flammarion). Already twice he was interested in the inheritance of Rimbaud in modern culture:  Rimbaud after Rimbaud is an anthology of texts by famous writers and artists (Textuel), and The blue eyes of Arthur Rimbaud is an anthology of portraits and illustrations by painters and sculptors( FVW).

The books of Claude Jeancolas (Only in French )

- Les Voyages de Rimbaud. Balland. Paris

- Le Dictionnaire Rimbaud. Balland. Paris

- L’œuvre intégrale manuscrite de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris

- Les Lettres manuscrites de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris

- Lettres et poèmes de Rimbaud. L’auberge verte. Paris (Not available on Internet)
 
- Une saison en enfer de Rimbaud. Hachette. Paris

- Passion Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris

- Poésies de Rimbaud. Éditions mille et une nuits. Paris (Not available on Internet)

- Rimbaud, la biographie. Flammarion. Paris

- L’Afrique de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris

- Rimbaud, l’œuvre. Textuel. Paris (Not available on Internet)

- Vitalie Rimbaud, pour l’amour d’un fils. biographie. Flammarion

- Rimbaud après Rimbaud, anthologie. Textuel. Paris

- Rimbaud, l'œuvre, la vie. Éditions France Loisirs (Not available on Internet)

- Le regard bleu d’Arthur Rimbaud. Éditions FVW. Paris

- Fierté de fer avec Joël Alessandra et Idriss Youssouf Elmi. Éditions Paquet. Genève

- L’aube du monde avec Thibaut et Pascal Villecroix, Amina Saïd Chiré - FVW. Paris (Not available on Internet)

- Rimbaudmania, affections et trahisons (1891-2010)