ISBN: 0140016651
Godina izdanja: 1976
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Jean Cocteau - Les Enfants Terribles (Modern Classics)
Penguin, 1976
150 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Illustrated by the author. Translated from the French by Rosamond Lehmann.

Les Enfants Terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation - Cocteau was always a poet no matter what he was writing - the book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when the present version was completed by Rosamond Lehmann. It is a masterpiece of the art of translation of which the Times Literary Supplement said: `It has the rare merit of reading as though it were an English original.`

Miss Lehmann was able to capture the essence of Cocteau`s strange, necromantic imagination and to bring fully to life in English his story of a brother and sister, orphaned in adolescence, who build themselves a private world out of one shared room and their own unbridled fantasies. What started in games and laughter became for Paul and Elisabeth a drug too magical to resist. The crime which finally destroyed them has the inevitability of Greek tragedy.


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