The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
ISBN-13:
9780811200219
ISBN-10:
0811200213
Author:
Jean Cocteau
Publication date:
1966
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780811200219
ISBN-10:
0811200213
Author:
Jean Cocteau
Publication date:
1966
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
Summary
The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) (ISBN-13: 9780811200219 and ISBN-10: 0811200213), written by authors
Jean Cocteau, was published by New Directions in 1966.
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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.We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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