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The Miscreant (Peter Owen Modern Classic) Book

Jacques Forestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to beauty in both sexes.Leaving his provincial family he comes to Paris to study for his degree. Indulging in a...Read More

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    Jean Cocteau, Dorothy Williams (Trans)

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    with drawings by Cocteau. Forestier, the central character, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to beauty in both sexes. In Paris, he indulges in a life of dissipation with students and their mistresses, and falls in love with Germaine, a chorus girl kept by a rich banker. The affair, doomed from the start, forces him to come to terms not so much with society as with himself. A cleverly told story...a brilliant picture of adolescent loneliness."" - TLS. ""Extremely witty...with its Gothic imagery, its sense of the macabre and its nostalgia it makes enchanting reading...beautifully translated."" - BBC.

  • 0720611733
  • 9780720611731
  • Jean Cocteau
  • 6 February 2003
  • Peter Owen Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 164
  • New Ed
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