Rare Books
"The Journals Of Jean Cocteau" 1956 FOWLIE, Wallace
$75
FOWLIE, Wallace [introduction by]
[250] pp.
Criterion Books, Inc
1956
First Edition
9 1/2" x 6 1/2"
Illustrated w/ 16 drawings by the Author
Playwright, film director, tells of his life, his work and the people he has known from Proust to Nijinsky and Milhaud from Picasso to Andre Gide and Raymond Radiguet
A selection of writings from the journals of Jean Cocteau. Extracts are grouped under the headings of 'Childhood and Early Influences', 'The Writer's Character', 'Testimonials', 'Theatre', 'Films', 'Aesthetics', 'Moral Essays', 'France', and 'New York'.