The Holy Terrors
of Jean Cocteau, Rosamond Lehmann (translator)
Description
Les Enfants Terribles 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 he was writing - the book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when the present version was completed by Rosamond 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." Miss Lehmann 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 became for Paul and Elisabeth a drug too magical to resist. The crime which finally destroyed them has the inevitability of Greek tragedy. Illustrated with twenty of Cocteau's own drawings.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192 pages
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation (NY)
- Publication Date June 1st 1966
- First Publication 10/29/29
- Language English
- ISBN 9780811200219
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Paris (France)']
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