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Cocteau Jean
The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
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Cocteau's novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was first published in 1929, holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation—Cocteau was always a poet no matter what we was writing—the book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when this translation was completed by Rosamund Lehmann. It is a masterpiece of the art of translation of which the Times Literary Supplement said: "It has the rare merit of reading as though it were an English original." Lehrmann was able to capture the essence of Cocteau's strange, necromantic imagination and to bring fully to life in English his story of a brother and sister, orphaned in adolescence, who build themselves a private world out of one shared room and their own unbridled fantasies. What started in games and laughter because for Paul and Elisabeth a drug too magical to resist. The crime which finally destroys them has the inevitability of Greek tragedy. Illustrated with twenty of Cocteau's own drawings.
Cocteau: A Biography (Nonpareil Books, No 40)
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Jean Cocteau, a major French 20th-century artist, was a deliberate scandal. The astonishing variety of his work as poet, novelist, playwright, and film-maker (The Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus); and the contradictions and paradoxes of his private life, the charm and the nastiness, the generosity, and the egomania, the poise and the anguish of an opium-addicted homosexual, a man who knew everyone who mattered in the arts, and who capped an avant-garde life by entering, without seeming contradiction, the formidable conservative precincts of the Académie Francaise-all this is elegantly woven by Mr Steegmuller into the gorgeous tapestry of this award-winning and riveting biography.
The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays.
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The Difficulty Of Being
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Writer, filmmaker, visual artist, and celebrated leader of the French avant-garde, Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) once announced, "One must know how to go too far." The astounding scope of his work stands as a testament to that revolutionary spirit. Throughout his life he boldly experimented in almost every medium and achieved enduring success in them all: novels like Les Enfants Terribles; films such as The Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast, and Orphee; as well as plays, ballets, drawings, poems, and even an opera of Oedipus Rex (written with Stravinsky). Cocteau regarded The Difficulty of Being as the key to his oeuvre and as a daring act of self-revelation. With terse skill he explores the innermost frontiers of his personality, from childhood memories to his creative wrestlings, from incisive portraits of Proust, Gide, Nijinsky, Picasso, and Stravinsky to reflections on death, friendship, dreams, youth, pain, beauty, haunted houses, and of course, on being without being. But no matter what he is writing about, he goes straight to the mark, illuminating a thought, subject, or personal reminiscence with precision and vitality. A magazine once asked Cocteau, If his house were burning and he could take only one thing, what would it be? "I'd take the fire," he answered. In The Difficulty of Being Cocteau does just that.
Erotica: Drawings by Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau's models came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were casual pick-ups, others were lovers and friends. Among those represented here are school mates who influenced his sexual development, as well as two of his most famous lovers—the precocious writer Raymond Radiguet and the actor Jean Marais. Cocteau also drew many of his distinguished contemporaries; included here are candid portraits of Picasso, Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Apollinaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Isadora Duncan, and Mistinguett. Highly revealing of Cocteau's search for his own, personal "truth," these sensitively drawn and haunting works have made a profound influence on the public's perception of the graphic relations between art and literature. Margaret Crosland, who has previously published a biography of Cocteau, provides an illuminating introduction and a chronology.
Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film
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Personalities of actors, technical problems and their surmounting, daily events, much more. 38 photographs.
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Driving tour of villages near Gâtinais National Park where artists ... - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times, CA - May 31, 2009
Driving tour of villages near Gâtinais National Park where artists French surrealist writer Jean Cocteau lived in Millet and was buried in its little 12th century Chapel of Saint-Blaise des Simples. Before his death in 1963 he helped restore the church and took up a paintbrush to cover its walls with images of
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JEAN GENET'S UN CHANT D'AMOUR (DVD) - Film Threat
Film Threat, CA - May 17, 625
Film ThreatJEAN GENET'S UN CHANT D'AMOUR (DVD)And the experimentation didn't end there, as the end result would forever be compared to Cocteau's “Blood of a Poet." Maya Deren, another early master of the experimental film, described her short, allusive works as “film poems”; Genet would have
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Le Serpent Rouge - New York Times
New York Times, United States - May 13, 2009
Le Serpent RougeFusing dance, theater, music and visual art, 'Le Serpent Rouge' draws inspiration from Jean Cocteau's one act play 'Le Bel Indifferent' and has an eclectic musical score featuring songs by Paul Anka, Cecilia Bartoli, James Brown, Eartha Kitt,
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LICENSING International Expo 2009 Exhibitor Profiles - TMC Net
TMC Net, CT - May 17, 8344
LICENSING International Expo 2009 Exhibitor ProfilesCompany: C. Delle Bates Booth: 3177 Media Contact: Delle Bates Phone: 409-313-3522 E-mail: cdellebates@sbcglobal.net Web: www.cdellebates.com Angles, inspired by the French artist Jean Cocteau, grace the clerestory windows of his downtown Orange, LICENSING International Expo 2009 Exhibitor Profiles
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Portuguese Pavilion - E-Flux
E-Flux, NY - May 17, 3871
Portuguese PavilionThis anthology, eponymously titled after the exhibition, is edited by Mattia Denisse and include essays by Honoré de Balzac, Jorge Luis Borges, Geneviève Calame-Griaule, Jean Cocteau, Charles Darwin, René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Stanislaw Lem,
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