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Book Synopsis Les Enfants Terribles by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book Les Enfants Terribles written by Jean Cocteau and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
Book Synopsis Les Enfants Terribles by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book Les Enfants Terribles written by Jean Cocteau and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terrors they are, these lads of the Lyc-e 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 version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game. Elisabeth might be the dutiful daughter tending their sick, prematurely aged mother; Paul might be under the spell of his fellow student Dargelos, and then of a hapless friend of his sister's - but unfortunately what the rules of the Game prescribe is that two children must die-
Book Synopsis The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles) by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles) written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1966-01-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Children of the Game by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book Children of the Game written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Novel Cure written by Ella Berthoud and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel is a story, a collection of experiences transmitted from the mind of one to the mind of another. It offers a way to unwind, a way to focus, a way to learn about life—distraction, entertainment, and diversion. But it can also be something much more powerful. When read at the right time in your life, a novel can—quite literally—change it. The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. To create this apothecary, the authors have trawled through two thousand years of literature for the most brilliant minds and engrossing reads. Structured like a reference book, it allows readers to simply look up their ailment, whether it be agoraphobia, boredom, or midlife crisis, then they are given the name of a novel to read as the antidote.
Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by Claude Arnaud and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau’s “fragile genius—a combination almost unlivable in art” but in his case so fertile. Arnaud narrates the life of this legendary French novelist, poet, playwright, director, filmmaker, and designer who, as a young man, pretended to be a sort of a god, but who died as a humble and exhausted craftsman. His moving and compassionate account examines the nature of Cocteau’s chameleon-like genius, his romantic attachments, his controversial politics, and his intimate involvement with many of the century’s leading artistic lights, including Picasso, Proust, Hemingway, Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Already published to great critical acclaim in France, Arnaud’s penetrating and deeply researched work reveals a uniquely gifted artist while offering a magnificent cultural history of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Les Enfants Terribles by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book Les Enfants Terribles written by Jean Cocteau and published by Emc Pub. This book was released on 1975 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy reader with vocabulary words in footnotes, labelled illustrations, and questions at the end of each chapter.
Book Synopsis The Difficulty of Being by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book The Difficulty of Being written by Jean Cocteau and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on life and art from the legendary filmmaker-novelist-poet-genius. By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century, and had worked with the foremost artists of his time, including Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky. This memoir tells the inside account of those achievements and of his glittering social circle. Cocteau writes about his childhood, about his development as an artist, and the peculiarity of the artist’s life, about his dreams, friendships, pain, and laughter. He probes his motivations and explains his philosophies, giving intimate details in soaring prose. And sprinkled throughout are anecdotes about the elite and historic people he associated with. Beyond illuminating a truly remarkable life, The Difficulty of Being is an inspiring homage to the belief that art matters.
Download or read book My First Wife written by Jakob Wassermann and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Wife is Jakob Wassermann's intense, powerful account of a marriage - and its ruinous collapse - translated by the award-winning translator of Alone in Berlin, Michael Hofmann. It is the story of Alexander Herzog, a young writer, who goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by her wealthy father, he thinks he can mould Ganna into what he wants. But no-one can control her troubling passions. As their marriage starts to self-destruct, Herzog will discover that Ganna has resources and determination of which he had no idea - and that he can never escape her. Posthumously published in 1934 and based on the author Jakob Wassermann's own ruinous marriage, My First Wife bears the unmistakable aura of true and bitter experience. It is a tragic masterpiece that unfolds in shocking detail. Now this story of rare intensity and drama is brought to English readers in a powerful new translation by Michael Hofmann. Reviews: 'Like something out of Chekhov - it's all there, the ennui, the preening etiquette, the intellectual posturing ... painfully heartfelt ... My First Wife is a devastating indictment of the choices we make out of convenience against our hearts and instincts, and the tragedies that ensue' Independent 'You won't find a more agonising, fascinating literary account of a marriage hitting the rocks' Mail Online
Book Synopsis A Dog's Ransom by : Patricia Highsmith
Download or read book A Dog's Ransom written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-08-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance. The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of this novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In A Dog's Ransom, Highsmith blends a savage humor with brilliant social satire in this dark tale of a highminded criminal who hits a wealthy Manhattan couple where it hurts the most when he kidnaps their beloved poodle. This work attesets to Highsmith's reputation as "the poet of apprehension" (Graham Greene).
Book Synopsis Les Enfants Terrible by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book Les Enfants Terrible written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1969-06-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles by : Robin Buss
Download or read book Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles written by Robin Buss and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Holy Innocents by : Gilbert Adair
Download or read book The Holy Innocents written by Gilbert Adair and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jean-Pierre Melville by : Ginette Vincendeau
Download or read book Jean-Pierre Melville written by Ginette Vincendeau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville's love of American culture and his controversial critical and political standing in this English language study.
Book Synopsis Jean Cocteau Coloring Book by : Jean Cocteau Committee
Download or read book Jean Cocteau Coloring Book written by Jean Cocteau Committee and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coloring book for adults (and others) that delves into the dizzying imagination of artist/playwright/filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
Book Synopsis Modern Classics Enfants Terribles by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book Modern Classics Enfants Terribles written by Jean Cocteau and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Cocteau -- poet, novelist, dramatist, artist, musician -- was 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 "Orphee" (1950).
Book Synopsis Letter to the Americans by : Jean Cocteau
Download or read book Letter to the Americans written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America’s promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront—its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations—in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.
