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Meeth The Author: Jean Cocteau | The Holy Terror - Les Enfants Terribles | (1929) | Orpheus (1950) | Poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic

 

Meeth The Author: 

Jean Cocteau


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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Picture was taken in 1923: glass negative restored and cropped print.

Jean Cocteau


Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements; and one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century art as a whole. The National Observer suggested that “of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth-Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man.”

He is best known for his novels Le Grand Écart (1923), Le Livre Blanc (1928), and Les Enfants Terribles (1929); the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1949), and Testament of Orpheus (1960), which alongside Blood of a Poet and Orpheus constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie. Cocteau, according to Annette Insdorf, “left behind a body of work unequaled for its variety of artistic expression.

The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)




Meeth The Author: Jean Cocteau | Poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic



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.


Orpheus (1950) 

Directed by Jean Cocteau




A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
Director
Jean Cocteau
Writer
Jean Cocteau
Actors
Jean MaraisFrançois PérierMaría Casares




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