De « Ville » à Liberté grande Présences de Rimbaud chez Julien Gracq

This article proposes to study Rimbaud’s influence on the poetic corpus of Julien Gracq, with particularly sustained attention to the prologue of Liberté grande. Read in the right light, Gracq’s work operates a veritable reappropriation of Rimbaud’s œuvre, one which is frequently passed over by the attention by critics more attentive to Gracq’s intertextual and historical relations to surrealism.