Les Enfants terribles
Cocteau, Jean and Jacques Hardré (Ed.). Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1969. Softbound. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Snow Queen' and the inspiration for Phillip Glass's eponymous opera, Les Enfants terribles is a tragedy formed by a series of overlapping love triangles, each one acute and claustrophobic. This edition features text in the original French, with English annotations and an eloquent intro by Hardré outlining the book's themes, including 'the immense privileges of beauty; the infernal mechanism which grinds out man's destiny; the enigma of the visible and the invisible; and time as a phenomenon of perspective. '
Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There is a cosmetic nick to the spine. Else very light shelf-wear. 107 pp. Foreign Language.
