Rimbaud et les avatars du moi

Rimbaud had a taste for disguise, for parodic identity. He synthetically formulated this inclination towards false selflessness in that little sentence from the letters of May 1871 : “Je est un autre”. On several occasions he attributed fictitious identities to himself (Le Bateau ivre, Bottom). The most mysterious and most Rimbaldian case of these avatars of the self can be found in Enfance II, where the underlined pronoun “le” appears as a substitute for “me”.