Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( , ; ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements and an influential figure in early 20th-century art. The ''National Observer'' suggested that, "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man.".He is best known for his novels ''Le Grand Écart'' (1923), ''Le Livre blanc'' (1928), and ''Les Enfants Terribles'' (1929); the stage plays ''La Voix Humaine'' (1930), ''La Machine Infernale'' (1934), ''Les Parents terribles'' (1938), ''La Machine à écrire'' (1941), and ''L'Aigle à deux têtes'' (1946); and the films ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1930), ''Les Parents Terribles'' (1948), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), ''Orpheus'' (1950), and ''Testament of Orpheus'' (1960), which alongside ''Blood of a Poet'' and ''Orpheus'' constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie. Cocteau, according to Annette Insdorf, "left behind a body of work unequalled for its variety of artistic expression."
Though his body of work encompassed many different mediums, Cocteau insisted on calling himself a poet, classifying the great variety of his works – poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings, films – as "poésie", "poésie de roman", "poésie de thêatre", "poésie critique", "poésie graphique" and "poésie cinématographique". Provided by Wikipedia
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Letter to the Americans / by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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My contemporaries. [Translated from the French]; by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Cocteau's world; an anthology of writings by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Lettre aux Américains. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Cocteau on the film; by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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The infernal machine, and other plays. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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The difficulty of being. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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A call to order : written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays / by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Les enfants terribles, roman. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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La Belle et la bête; journal d'un film. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Portraits--souvenir, 1900-1914, by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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The impostor. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Le sang d'un poete. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Théâtre. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Orphée : tragédie en un acte et un intervalle / by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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La belle et a bête. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Théâtre. by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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The hand of a stranger (Journal d'un inconnu) by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Professional secrets; an autobiography of Jean Cocteau, drawn from his lifetime writings by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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Les parents terribles (indiscretions) / by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
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