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In 1991, the Residencia de Estudiantes invited Pere Gimferrer to give a lecture on Arthur Rimbaud to commemorate the centenary of his death. Gimferrer called Rimaud “a case of extreme singularity” in the history of literature. His lecture is a spontaneous and seductive argumentation in favor of that “uniqueness” of the French poet. He gave an assessment, spun with erudition, of the features that made Rimbaud a truly remarkable poet. His precocious, innovative and misunderstood genius placed him well ahead of his time.

“In one hundred years no one has gone beyond Rimbaud,” claims Gimferrer, convincing us that perhaps someone could write poems as good as those by Rimbaud, but never one better. Gimferrer suggests that the teenage poet stopped writing at the age of twenty because he knew he was far ahead of his time.

Pere Gimferrer (Barcelona, 1945), poet, translator and anthologist, is a key figure in both Catalan and Spanish cultures. Writer of proverbial erudition, he won the Premio Nacional de Poesía with Arde el mar in 1966. After La muerte en Beverly Hills (1968) he writes only in Catalan. Author of El espacio desierto and Apariciones, he is amember of the Real Academia de la Lengua since 1985, and won the Premio Nacional de las Letras in 1998.

PAPERBACK. 11 × 16 cm, 64 pp.
ISBN: 978-84-95078-35-3