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In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began
composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid
impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful
wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the
different values they place on art, literature, liberty,
psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes
in America's promise, while at the same time warning of the many
ills that the nation will have to confront-its hypocrisy, sexism,
racism, and hegemonic aspirations-in order to realize this
potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the
Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first
published in France over seventy years ago.
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Secrets of Beauty
Jean Cocteau
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A classic French tale of morality and a menage a trios Set in
Parisian society after the First World War, this is the study of a
three-sided relationship between Count Anne d'Orgel, his wife
Mahaut and a young man they befriend, Francois de Seryeuse. The
couple then find that their marriage is qualified and confirmed by
the feelings thus released. An extraordinary achievement ... well
caught in Violet Schiff's brilliant translation. --GiILBERT ADAIR
Evening Standard The tale is definitely a masterpiece, one
attempted and achieved by a young man of nineteen who was on his
deathbed before it was published. JOHN BAYLEY Times Literary
Supplement Raymond Radiguet was born in 1903 and died tragically
young in 1923, having writen only two short but celebrated novels
and a volume of poetry. After leaving, school, Radiguet entered
Parisian literary circles, becoming the protege of Jean Cocteau.
Count d'Orgel was published posthumously by Cocteau whose afterword
appears in this edition.
Written in a French style that long defied successful
translation--Cocteau was always a poet no matter what we was
writing--the book came into its own for English-language readers in
1955 when this translation was completed by Rosamund 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." Lehrmann 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 because for Paul and Elisabeth a drug too magical to
resist. The crime which finally destroys them has the inevitability
of Greek tragedy. Illustrated with twenty of Cocteau's own
drawings.
`I'm whispering into your ear - and we couldn't be further apart.'
A woman, a phone call, a final conversation. In this extraordinary
and prophetic monologue a woman fights for the person she loves.
Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human
relationships - and the machine that has changed them forever.
Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej Klimowski Two of
the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition
were written for Édith Piaf. The other five were written for
Cocteau’s friend, the celebrated actor Jean Marais, to perform on
radio. Although perhaps a minor part of Cocteau’s output of
films, plays, poems and ballet scenarios, these exquisite
miniatures remain a fascinating form of his dramatic expression.
Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) is best known for his enduring farces,
such as A Flea In Her Ear, yet he wrote over 20 monologues for
actors to perform at charity concerts and in fashionable drawing
rooms. The six included in this volume were written over a period
of 16 years from 1882. Peter Meyer’s translations of eleven of
these monologues were commissioned by the BBC and performed on
radio by leading actors including Eileen Atkins, Jill Bennett,
Richard Briers, Judi Dench, Alec McCowan and Timothy West. The Liar
and I Lost Her have been newly translated for this volume.
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La Belle Et La Bête (DVD)
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre, Mila Parely, Nane Germon, …
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Jean Cocteau's classic fantasy re-casts the well-known fairy tale.
When Beauty's father picks a rose at a deserted castle, a beast in
Prince's clothing appears and tells him he must die. He sends the
man home to say good-bye to his family, whereupon Beauty offers to
take her father's place. She goes off to the castle but instead of
killing her, the beast falls in love with her.
The meaning of poetry and the sociological and political
significance of art are dealt with in these letters. Jacques
Maritain (18 November 1882 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic
philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in
1906. An author of more than 60 books, he is responsible for
reviving St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent
drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pope Paul VI
presented his "Message to Men of Thought and of Science" at the
close of Vatican II to Maritain, his long-time friend and mentor.
Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau (5 July 1889 11 October 1963)
was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager,
playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of
his generation (Jean Anouilh and Rene Char for example) Cocteau
grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en
scene language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a
classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers
included Pablo Picasso, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Edith Piaf,
whom he cast in one of his one act plays entitled Le Bel
Indifferent in 1940, and Raymond Radiguet.
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Orphee (French, DVD)
Jean Marais, Maria Casares, François Perier, Maria Dea, Edouard Dermithe, …
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R218
Discovery Miles 2 180
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In Jean Cocteau's updating of the Orpheus myth, Orphee (Jean
Marais) is a famous poet whose obsession with a mysterious princess
- representing death - and a series of cryptic radio broadcasts
causes him to neglect his wife. When she is killed, the guilty poet
travels to the Underworld to win her back - and to find the
princess. `Orphee' is famous for its dreamlike quality, with images
of mirrors and the Nazi occupation of France.
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