In this classic study Cocteau vividly describes his extraordinary experiences while taking opium, the drug to which he owed his 'perfect hours' but which, inevitably, exacted its price. It also contains reminiscences of some of Cocteau's closet friends, including Nijinsky and Marcel Proust, and provides revealing insights into the creation of such ...
"Terrors they are, these lads of the Lycee Condorcet, and no mistake - the terrors of the Fifth...where the tenebrous instincts of childhood still predominate..." 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 ...
This translation of Cocteau's 1936 travelogue accurately reflects his journey into the cities he visited during his trip around the world in emulation of Verne's Phileas Fogg.
Now in paper, this is Jean Cocteau's first novel (1921). Jacques Forestier is a parasite who responds readily to both sexes. He comes to Paris to study but ends up indulging himself in a life of dissipation, culminating in a doomed love affair with a chorus girl. A sparkling evocation of the Parisian scene, the novel is also a study of loneliness ...
For more than thirty years, poet, writer and artist Jean Cocteau maintained a lasting and passionate affair with the moving image. To him, film was a visionary, dream-like form, a glimpse of the phantoms that haunted the poet throughout his life.
Written in 1923 with 22WWl as background, an excellent example of Cocteau's verve, urbanity, and stylistic brilliance. Here, imaginative sixteen-year-old Thomas 'borrows' an illustrious ancestry which both a widowed Princess and her young daughter find irresistible.
"Le Livre Blanc, " attributed to Jean Cocteau, has a twofold interest: first because of its appeal to bibliophiles as a collector's item, and second because of its assumed authorship. Cocteau never formally acknowledged the book, except in so far as he allowed it to appear in the 'authorized' bibliography drawn up in connection with his
Cocteau, the renowned French poet, filmmaker and painter recalls his childhood in lyrical fashion. Includes humorous sketches of personalities like Isadora Duncan, Picasso, Marlena Dietrich and Greta Garbo.
Jean Cocteau delighted in shocking the world. In pubic, at least, the image he presented was one of great daring -- a man eager to defy, willing to experiment, ready to challenge. Cocteau's achievements in almost every artistic medium -- including poetry, film, illustration, criticism, and ballet -- rightfully earned him a reputation for radical ...
Poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and artist, Cocteau thrilled, outraged, and moved audiences. In this sequel to the acclaimed first volume, the private Cocteau can be clearly glimpsed. Photos.
Perhaps Cocteau's most highly regarded work of non-fiction, these essays are as broad and as deep as the title implies. Topics include autobiographical explanations of his eclectic artistic life, an essay on the art of reading (books should reflect back on the reader), on writing (a transfusion of spirit with the reader), several essays on death ...
The second volume of diaries, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Cocteau's death, covers the year 1953 and unveils Cocteau's flagrant and destructuve addiction to opium and his dazzling artistic exploits in the all-male brothels of Touilon. Always renowned for his flamboyant public image, this book reveals the other very human side ...
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Drawings
by
Jean Cocteau, Stanley Appelbaum (Translator), Edouard Dermit (Designer)
