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 J ean 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 fi