by Jean Cocteau · Editions du Rocher · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782268008165
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«La Difficulté d'être» is the philosophy essay by Jean Cocteau, published by Editions du Rocher in paperback (219 pages, in French).
Jean Cocteau reviews his childhood, his formation as an artist and his circle of friends (Proust, Gide, Picasso, Stravinsky) to reflect on creation, dreams, pain and the meaning of existence. Amid anecdotes of French cultural life, he defends the conviction that art matters and explains the keys to his own poetics.
Work originally published in 1947; this 2003 paperback edition includes a preface by François Nourissier.
For readers interested in philosophy, art and the memoirs of a multifaceted creator in twentieth-century France.
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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and highly influential on the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The National Observer suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man".
