by Jean Cocteau · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140016659
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«Les Enfants Terribles» is the classic novel by Jean Cocteau, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Paul and Elisabeth are two siblings who turn their shared room into the stage of a secret game whose rules dominate their adult life. The novel follows that private world, with characters such as Gérard and Agatha, until the boundary between game and reality blurs and the fraternal relationship becomes absorbing and destructive.
Originally published in 1929, this English edition has a translation by Rosamond Lehmann and illustrations by Cocteau himself.
A work of interest for readers of classic fiction and twentieth-century French literature.
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".
