TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arnaud,Claude
AU  - Elkin,Lauren
AU  - Mandell,Charlotte
TI  - Jean Cocteau: a life 
SN  - 9780300170573
AV  - PQ2605.O15 Z56513 2016
U1  - 848/.91209B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Cocteau, Jean,
KW  - Authors, French
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Artists
KW  - France
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 984-989) and index; The child prodigy -- Ariel -- The living god -- The molting -- The war as opera -- The ordeal of Bohemia -- The parade of peace -- With Radiguet -- All against Dada -- The miraculous years -- Genealogy of a tragedy -- The angel's dream -- La Croix et la BannieÌre -- 'Raymond has returned" -- The sound of the fall -- The tragic years -- The decadent one -- The resurrection -- The occupied -- In the heart of the furnace -- The universal suspect -- The unfashionable -- Who is the greatest genius of the century? -- The survivor
N2  - Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau's "fragile genius--a combination almost unlivable in art" but in his case so fertile. Arnaud narrates the life of this legendary French novelist, poet, playwright, director, filmmaker, and designer who, as a young man, pretended to be a sort of god, but who died as a humble and exhausted craftsman. His moving and compassionate account examines the nature of Cocteau's chameleon-like genius, his romantic attachments, his controversial politics, and his intimate involvement with many of the century's leading artistic lights, including Picasso, Proust, Hemingway, Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Already published to great critical acclaim in France, Arnaud's penetrating and deeply researched work reveals a uniquely gifted artist while offering a magnificent cultural history of the twentieth century -- Book jacket
ER  -