Diary of an Unknown.

[Literary Diary] Cocteau, Jean.

Verlag: Paragon House, 1988

Beschreibung

A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Diary of an Unknown was started in 1951, at about the time Cocteau begin his famous journals. This more personal document is at once intensely intimate and deeply philosophical. In these essays - which often recall the essays of Montaigne with their strictness of form, theme, and syntax - Cocteau reveals himself as never before. Like the Surrealists, Cocteau thrived upon, and solicited, public attention. But behind the flamboyance and the mystique, behind the public persona, there was the private self. Here we glimpse the private Jean Cocteau, playing with ideas and musing on all manner of subjects: nature; New York ; poetry; and beauty. Cocteau ruminates on psychoanalysis, the Nuremberg trials, the Trinity, freedom and the death penalty as well as familiar Coctelian themes - angels, invisibility, friendship, memory, and the birth of ideas. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 27404

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Diary of an Unknown.

Verlag: Paragon House

Erscheinungsdatum: 1988

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition