Henry Miller - O Tempo dos Assassinos

"Only perfection can erase the memory of a wound that runs deeper than the torrent of life."

In 1927, in the basement of a sordid building in Brooklyn, Henry Miller heard the name Rimbaud for the first time. Years later, in Los Angeles, he feverishly wrote verses by the poet on the walls of his home, and in 1945, the first lines of *The Time of the Assassins* (1946) appeared, one of the most fascinating studies of the *poète maudit*. In the midst of the atomic age, on the precipice of annihilation, the identification between the two giants of subversive literature was instantaneous, and Miller heard in Rimbaud the appeal of a prophet of the collapse of civilization, of an outcast like himself, seeing himself reflected in the revolt against the world, in the adversities and itinerancy of his favorite writer. Blending biography and reflection, The Time of the Assassins, using Rimbaud's life as a starting point, explores the social function and dilemmas of the genius artist who refuses to succumb to an era in which society stifles the vital creative instinct.