Germain Nouveau dit Humilis

Germain Nouveau (1851-1920) poet and painter friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine discreet disciple of Mallarmé led a vie de bohème while composing poems of both religious and erotic inspiration. This book is both a biographical study and an introduction to the works of a long-neglected poet and undervalued precursor of French Surrealism whose calligraphy can be found in the manuscript of Rimbaud's famous <i>Illuminations</i> and to whom Breton Aragon and Eluard acknowledged their debt.