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Les Enfants Terribles
Jean Cocteau
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Description for Les Enfants Terribles
Paperback. At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game: unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that the two children must die...
At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game: unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that the two children must die...
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099561378
SKU
9780099561378
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About Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) - poet, novelist, dramatist, artist, musician, choreographer, film-maker, and actor - was one of the most talented Frenchmen of the twentieth century and a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. In addition to his popular novel Les Enfants terribles (1929), he is best remembered in the English-speaking world for the film of Orph-e (1950) and perhaps his play La Machine infernale (1934).
Reviews for Les Enfants Terribles
The lasting feeling that his work leaves is one of happiness; not of course in the sense that it excludes suffering, but because, in it, nothing is rejected, resented or regretted
W. H. Auden Cocteau's tale of young beauties whose isolation leads them towards premature decay...a genuine tragedy
Independent on Sunday
The novel Les Enfants Terrible has become a rite of passage in every French childhood
Guardian
If La Belle et la Bête his romance, then Les Enfants Terribles is his tragedy. Like the others, it articulates Cocteau's belief in the power of imagination to transform the ordinary world into a world of magic
Philip Glass Cocteau never meant his work to pass as anyone else's, and even when it is imitative it bears a maker's mark that would disqualify any forger: the stamp of a master of paradox and aesthetic epigram, who supplied a unique - and enduring - connection between the classic and the new
Francis Steegmuller
W. H. Auden Cocteau's tale of young beauties whose isolation leads them towards premature decay...a genuine tragedy
Independent on Sunday
The novel Les Enfants Terrible has become a rite of passage in every French childhood
Guardian
If La Belle et la Bête his romance, then Les Enfants Terribles is his tragedy. Like the others, it articulates Cocteau's belief in the power of imagination to transform the ordinary world into a world of magic
Philip Glass Cocteau never meant his work to pass as anyone else's, and even when it is imitative it bears a maker's mark that would disqualify any forger: the stamp of a master of paradox and aesthetic epigram, who supplied a unique - and enduring - connection between the classic and the new
Francis Steegmuller