Cocteau: A Biography (Nonpareil Books, No 40)

Brand: David R Godine

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$57.64 - $65.42
UPC:
9780879236069
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11/1/1992
Author:
Francis Steegmuller
Language:
english
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Jean Cocteau, a major French 20th-century artist, was a deliberate scandal. The astonishing variety of his work as poet, novelist, playwright, and film-maker (The Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus); and the contradictions and paradoxes of his private life, the charm and the nastiness, the generosity, and the egomania, the poise and the anguish of an opium-addicted homosexual, a man who knew everyone who mattered in the arts, and who capped an avant-garde life by entering, without seeming contradiction, the formidable conservative precincts of the Acadmie Francaise-all this is elegantly woven by Mr Steegmuller into the gorgeous tapestry of this award-winning and riveting biography.