[LITTERATURE] - COCTEAU (Jean) -Livre Rare Book
[Literary Diary] Cocteau, JeanBiblio.com
Diary of an Unknown.
198827404New York:: Paragon House 1988. First Printing of the First US Edition. 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. Paragon House, unknown
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