by Jean Cocteau · Grands Ecrivains · tapa dura · ISBN 9782850185427
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«Les Enfants terribles» is the novel by Jean Cocteau, published by Grands Ecrivains in hardcover (183 pages, in French).
Two siblings, Paul and Elisabeth, build a private world in their room, apart from adults, where a secret game with its own rules governs their lives. That shared imagination becomes an absorbing force that ends up conditioning their relationship with the outside world.
This French edition was published in 1984 and belongs to the Grands Écrivains collection, which brings together authors selected by the Académie Goncourt; the novel originally appeared in 1929.
For readers of French literary classics and twentieth-century literary fiction, with an interest in Jean Cocteau's narrative work.
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and highly influential on the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. 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".
