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The Difficulty of Being Jean Cocteau

The Difficulty of Being By Jean Cocteau

The Difficulty of Being by Jean Cocteau


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This volume explores the author's personality, from childhood memories to his creative wrestlings, from portraits of Proust, Gide, Nijinsky, Picasso and Stravinsky to reflections on death, friendship, dreams, youth, pain, beauty, haunted houses, and on being without being.

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The Difficulty of Being by Jean Cocteau

}Writer, filmmaker, visual artist, and celebrated leader of the French avant-garde, Jean Cocteau (18891963) once announced, One must know how to go too far. The astounding scope of his work stands as a testament to that revolutionary spirit. Throughout his life he boldly experimented in almost every medium and achieved enduring success in them all: novels like Les Enfants Terribles ; films such as The Blood of a Poet , Beauty and the Beast , and Orphee ; as well as plays, ballets, drawings, poems, and even an opera of Oedipus Rex (written with Stravinsky). Cocteau regarded The Difficulty of Being as the key to his oeuvre and as a daring act of self-revelation. With terse skill he explores the innermost frontiers of his personality, from childhood memories to his creative wrestlings, from incisive portraits of Proust, Gide, Nijinsky, Picasso, and Stravinsky to reflections on death, friendship, dreams, youth, pain, beauty, haunted houses, and of course, on being without being. But no matter what he is writing about, he goes straight to the mark, illuminating a thought, subject, or personal reminiscence with precision and vitality. A magazine once asked Cocteau, If his house were burning and he could take only one thing, what would it be? I'd take the fire, he answered. In The Difficulty of Being Cocteau does just that. }

Table of Contents

On Conversation; On My Childhood; On My Style; On the Work and the Legend; On Raymond Radiguet; On My Physique; On My Escapes; On France; On the Theatre; On Diaghilev and Nijinsky; On the Marvels of Cinematography; On Friendship; On Dreams; On Reading; On Measurement and Marcel Proust; On Haunted Houses; On Pain; On Death; On Frivolity; On the Palais-Royal; On the Rule of the Soul; On Guillame Apollinaire; On Laughter; On Being Without Being; On Words; On Youth; On Beauty; On Customs; On a Drama in Mime; On Responsibility; Postscript.

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CIN0306806339G
9780306806339
0306806339
The Difficulty of Being by Jean Cocteau
Used - Good
Paperback
Hachette Books
19950321
176
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