Les Enfants Terribles
Jean Cocteau, 1929
France
144 pages
Read 2023.01
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✔ Poetic novel
✔ Decadent youths in Paris
✔ Self destructive friendship
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ It's poetic, it's very Cocteau, also very French, very Nouvelle Vague. The whole story really builds up to the ending beautifully; self destructive and decadent but a perfect story. This book is an art itself.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
It's a title that comes up in any textbooks, but finally read it.
The most famous novel by the poet, Cocteau.
It's poetic, it's very Cocteau, also very French, very Nouvelle Vague.
The whole story really builds up to the ending beautifully; self destructive and decadent but a perfect story.
When we think about Paris and art, this is it.
It must have been a shock to the world, and the effect it gives has been imitated in repetition in numerous novels and films, this is the peak that we want to return to.
This book is an art, and it's at the highest point of the modern French art.
Now I must see the film too.
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Les Enfants Terribles
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I ragazzi terribili (Italiano)
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