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(0)Jean Cocteau
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"Professional Secrets is not the biography outsiders will attempt, not Orpheus as reconstructed by Bulfinch, but Orpheus as he saw himself, remembering his past from his own point of view. Drawing upon some thirty of Cocteau's books, as well as memoirs by friends and confreres, Professional Secrets follows the trajectory of a living myth."--Book jacket.
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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...
9) The impostor
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"The Impostor", a novel set in France at the beginning of World War I, evokes the atmosphere of that period by contrasting the loves, griefs, and fates of a group of vital characters, including Thomas, the sixteen-year-old "impostor," with the aimlessness and horror of the war. -- From publisher's description.
10) The miscreant
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"Jacques Forestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to beauty in both sexes." "Leaving his provincial family he comes to Paris to study for his degree. Indulging in a life of dissipation with a group of students and their mistresses, he falls in love with Germaine, a chorus girl kept by a rich banker. The affair, doomed from the start, forces Jacques to come to terms...
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The rich string harmonies and textures in the ballet score of Apollon musagete are pleasantly mesmerizing. In contrast, the dramatic and hauntingly compelling opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex is composed of an assemblage of monumental and powerful sounds, with magnificent vocals from the choir and soloists.