Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: W. Clement Stone
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Provides insight into the artistry and scope of Cocteau's work and the relation of his writings and private life.
The Difficulty of Being
Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
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.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Author: Time Bookshop (London, England)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Jean Cocteau 1889-1963, Drawings, Prints, Ceramics and Small Sculpture
Author: William Weston GalleryJean Cocteau (1889-1963).
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kuusankosken Kaupunginkirjasto in Finland provides information about the French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). Kuusankosken Kaupunginkirjasto presents a biographical sketch of Cocteau and a selected bibliography of his works. Cocteau's published works include "Carte Blanche" (1920), "Vocabulaire" (1922), "Les Biches" (1924), and "Le Mystere de l'Oiseleur" (1925).
Jean Cocteau and His World
Author: Arthur King PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Cocteau on the Film
Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: Facsimiles-Garl
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Cocteau's World
Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: W. Clement Stone
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Provides insight into the artistry and scope of Cocteau's work and the relation of his writings and private life.
Le Livre Blanc
Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 9780720610819
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene. It is now possible to issue it under Cocteau's name. The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The young man's self-deceptive attempts to find fulfilment, first through women and then by way of the church, are movingly conveyed; the book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure. The book is fully illustrated and includes many woodcuts by the author.
Les Enfants Terribles
Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099561379
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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...
Diary of an Unknown
Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: Paragon House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This important new translation brings the diary of Jean Cocteau to America for the first time. Diary of an Unknown was started in 1951, at about the time Cocteau begin his famous journals. This more personal document is at once intensely intimate and deeply philosophical. In these essays - which often recall the essays of Montaigne with their strictness of form, theme, and syntax - Cocteau reveals himself as never before. Like the Surrealists, Cocteau thrived upon, and solicited, public attention. But behind the flamboyance and the mystique, behind the public persona, there was the private self. Here we glimpse the private Jean Cocteau, playing with ideas and musing on all manner of subjects: nature ("I am more fascinated by the underside than by the topside"); New York ("a city that abides neither contempt nor pity"); poetry ("a religion without hope"); and beauty ("The beautiful is always the result of an accident"). Cocteau ruminates on psychoanalysis, the Nuremberg trials, the Trinity, freedom and the death penalty. He also returns to familiar Coctelian themes - angels, invisibility, friendship, memory, and the birth of ideas. He writes of Proust, Picasso, Stravinsky and Sartre, remembering conversations or recording his own observations on their work with extraordinary freshness of insight. In its breadth, its beauty, and its intimacy, DIary of an Unknown deepens our understanding of one of the most original artists of the century. -- from dust jacket.