A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood. 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 -- but unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that two children must die.

Les Enfants Terribles

COCTEAU,Jean

Literature & Fiction

Vintage Classics

An elegantly produced letterpress edition of this classic cult novel by one of France's great writers. For the first time, the publisher has combined the original line drawings for the story with the text, in a translation by Rosamond Lehman. Each copy is hand numbered, bound by hand in cream linen and slipcased in a stunning blend of artistry and simplicity.

Modern Classics Enfants Terribles

Classics

Penguin Classic

Enfants Terribles (Twentieth Century Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet / The Testament of Orpheus

Dramas & Plays

Pelican, 1969

Bound in quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has minor closed tears to the extremities.

Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries, Vol. 1

Biographies & Memoirs

Rorem, Ned (Introduction by), and Chanel, Pierre (Annotations by)

Arts & Literature

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

This volume of diaries reveals the private life of Jean Cocteau--poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, artist, and writer for the ballet and opera--and his relationships with such companions as Colette, Matisse, Sartre, Picasso, Genet, and Proust

Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries, Vol. 2 (English and French Edition)

Harcourt

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 versatility. He assumed Oscar Wilde's role as "world's most dazzling talker" and Thomas DeQuincey's as "world's most conspicuous opium addict"; he drew depictions of his bouts in the all-male brothels of Toulon; he created the actor Jean Marais and the chanteuse Edith Piaf. But among Cocteau's many accomplishments was one composition protected by the private man: his diary. Recorded during the last 13 years of his life, Cocteau's diary was kept a secret until 1983. this first of six projected volumes reveals Cocteau's life from 1951 to 1953. In it, he makes asides about Picasso, writes Oedipus rex, admires Stalin, travels through Europe, and engages in gross generalizations about Americans. With line drawings from Cocteau's original journal, Past Tense is a literary event -- a window into Cocteau's life and creativity as he wanted them to be remembered.

Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries Volume 1

Mariner Books

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.

The Difficulty Of Being

Da Capo Press

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Westport Conn Greenwood Press 1978

Maalesh: A Theatrical Tour in the Middle-East

Humor & Entertainment

Praeger

Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau

Phelps, Robert (Editor)

Howard, Richard [Translator]

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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