Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)

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1. Jean Genet

   Author of Our Lady of the Flowers, The Thief's Journal, Querelle

2. Arthur Rimbaud

   Author of Complete Works, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat, Illuminations

3. Charles Baudelaire

   Author of The Flowers of Evil, Paris Spleen, Les Paradis artificiels

4. André Gide

   Author of The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate, La Symphonie Pastorale

5. Rainer Maria Rilke

   Author of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

6. Ezra Pound

   Author of Selected Poems, 1908–1959, The Cantos of Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

7. Louis-Ferdinand Céline

   Author of Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Brieven aan vriendinnen

8. Gustave Flaubert

   Author of Sentimental Education, Three Tales, A Simple Heart

9. Jean-Paul Sartre

   Author of No Exit and Three Other Plays, The Words, The Reprieve

10. Joris-Karl Huysmans

    Author of Against the Grain, The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics)

11. André Breton

    Author of Nadja, Manifestoes of Surrealism

12. Samuel Beckett

    Author of Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable, Watt, How It Is

13. Henry Miller

    Author of Black Spring, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Time of the Assassins a Study of Rimbaud

14. Antonin Artaud

    Author of The Theater and Its Double, Artaud Anthology, Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings

15. François Rabelais

    Author of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gargantua, Pantagruel

16. William Carlos Williams

    Author of Selected Poems, Paterson

17. Comte de Lautréamont

    Author of Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror

18. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

19. Guy de Maupassant

    Author of Bel-Ami, Une vie, Pierre and Jean

20. Allen Ginsberg

    Author of Howl and Other Poems, Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series), Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties