Holy Terrors - Couverture souple

Cocteau, Jean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811200213 ISBN 13 : 9780811200219

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a French writer, poet, designer, draftsman, sculptor, filmmaker, and boxing manager. His list of friends--including New Directions' founder James Laughlin--would read like a catalog of the stars of the twentieth-century avant-garde. He died of a heart attack after being informed of the death of his friend, the singer Edith Piaf.

Rosamond Nina Lehmann (1901 - 1990) was a British novelist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1966
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811200213
• ISBN 13: 9780811200219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible