Changing life by the means of poetry: this was Rimbaud's ambition. This volume brings together the works of a poet who had become a myth, from his first story, composed at the age of ten, to poems in prose of Illuminations, which precede his surrender to literature, the twenty coming. We will discover, alongside his most famous texts – the letters of the Seer, the poetry or even A season in Hell – less well known writings recently found. And we will measure the path taken by this genius "ravaged violently by literature", according to the words of Mallarmé, actor of "a unique adventure in the history of art".