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?Delightful reading, brilliant, witty, chic and profound. Colette, Piaf, Sachs, Proust, Appollinaire et al are presented for a few brief moments like characters coming to life at the footlights.? ? Irish Times ?He (Cocteau) makes no effort to convince the reader that his portraits of Parisian nobilities are true to life. He cheerfully agrees that what one presents as a portrait is in reality a portrait of oneself.? ? New Statesman ?Delightful ... What drama and bravura Cocteau can bring to his portraiture! Shrewdness, fantasy and charitableness are admirably mixed in this book and at all times Cocteau responds with spirit to those famous words of encouragement of Diaghilev: ?Surprise me?? ? Punch ?This little haystack of a book contains quite a number of needles ... in their unstudied extravagant way they vividly recreate the personal and artistic presences of Cocteau?s ?monstres sacres?.? ? Scotsman ?Attractive, approachable ... Everything is light, easy, and, for all that, penetrating. The showman, showing others, shows himself.? ? TLS
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For almost fifty years (until his death in 1963) Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the astounding variety of his talents. In these fields - theatre, cinema, art, ballet and literature - Cocteau made many life-long friends. Intimate portraits of these friends and intimates make up this highly regarded volume. Jean Cocteau was drawn to larger than life or seemingly unreal characters. He believed that their unreality was often the clue to the secrets of their personality. In descriptions of his contemporaries, Cocteau is able to illustrate everything that is accessible, sympathetic, memorable, durable, all-pervading or dazzling about them. Ranging from the moving and atmospheric (the dying Proust in his cork-lined chamber) to the hilariously camp (Colette being carried from her apartment by sedan chair to have lunch across the road), it is in these portraits that the essence of Cocteaus own work can be found. Portraits include: Anna de Noailles, Erik Satie, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsjy, Empress Eugenie, Marcel Proust, Raymond Radiguet, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Sachs, Andre Gide, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Eith Piaf, Giorgio de Chirico, Colette, and many others.
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- Año de publicación2008
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