Cocteau - a biography (Art Ebook).pdf

Little, Brown | 1970 | Pdf | Eng | 583 pag | 100 MB

Jean Cocteau, the subject of this masterly biography, died in 1963 at the age of seventy-four, after fifty-eight years of kaleidoscopic activity in the arts. The astounding variety of his work, as poet, novelist, playwright and film-maker; and the contradictions and paradoxes of his private life, the charm and the nastiness, the generosity and the egotism, the poise and anguish of an opium addicted homosexual who was equally welcome in the aristocratic drawing rooms of Paris and the raffish waterfront bars of Toulon, and who climaxed an avant-garde life by entering the ultra-conservative precincts of the Academie Francaise — all this makes him as fascinating to read about as he is challenging to write about.