The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles) by Cocteau, Jean

The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles)

Written in a French style that long defied successful translation--Cocteau was always a poet no matter what...
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Author: Jean Cocteau
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles) by Cocteau, Jean

The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles)

Dhs. 113.22

The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles)

Dhs. 113.22
Author: Jean Cocteau
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Jean Cocteau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/17/1966
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.14w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780811200219

About the Author
Lehmann, Rosamond: - "Rosamond Nina Lehmann (1901 - 1990) was a British novelist."Cocteau, Jean: - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a French writer, poet, designer, draftsman, sculptor, filmmaker, and boxing manager. His list of friends--including New Directions' founder James Laughlin--would read like a catalog of the stars of the twentieth-century avant-garde. He died of a heart attack after being informed of the death of his friend, the singer Edith Piaf.

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