by Jean Cocteau · Grasset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246112631
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«La machine infernale» is the four-act play by Jean Cocteau, published by Grasset in paperback (180 pages, in French).
A very free adaptation of the Oedipus myth: according to the oracle of Delphi, Oedipus is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother. Cocteau modernises Sophocles' tragedy with surrealism, irony and deliberate anachronisms, presenting fate as an infernal machine that brings misfortune, uniting poetry and fatality.
The play was originally published in 1934 and this 2003 edition belongs to the Les Cahiers Rouges collection from Grasset.
A work of interest for readers of classical theatre, mythology and twentieth-century French literature, as well as for students approaching Cocteau's work.
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".
