The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune

A thrilling rise through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.

“A rare example of cultural studies done with zest as well as depth” — The Nation

Kristin Ross is professor of comparative literature at New York University. Her other works include Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995) and May '68 and Its Afterlives (2002), and Anti-Americanism (2004, co-authored with Andrew Ross).