The French writer Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) explored nostalgia for childhood and adolescence, frustration in love, and fear of solitude and death.Jean Cocteau was born in a suburb of Paris and brought ...
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Jean Cocteau was first introduced to the Parisian public in 1908, when he was eighteen. The colorful and popular actor Edouard de Max, with colleagues from the Comédie-Française, gave a ...
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Jean Cocteau's role in twentieth-century French poetry is not unlike that of the rather too talkative Sphinx in his play, La Machine infernale (1934; translated as The Infernal Machine, 1936), who as...
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Jean Cocteau
Jean (Maurice Eugene Clement) Cocteau
