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Secrets of Beauty
Jean Cocteau
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A modern, accessible translation of Cocteau's monologue Le Bel
Indifferent which combines black humour and tragedy. The woman
awaits the return of her lover, a notorious gigolo. As the hours
tick by she becomes increasingly frustrated. When Emile finally
arrives he calmly ignores her outburst, preparing to leave again as
the woman rushes to the window.1 woman, 1 man
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.
`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.
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.
Jean Cocteau -- poet, novelist, dramatist, artist, musician -- was
a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. In addition to his
popular novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), he is best remembered
in the English-speaking world for the film "Orphee" (1950).
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