| The Miscreant: With Drawings by John Cocteau Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cocteau, Jean (Author), Williams, Dorothy (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0720611733 ISBN-13: 9780720611731 Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: Now in paper, this is Jean Cocteau's first novel (1921). Jacques Forestier is a parasite who responds readily to both sexes. He comes to Paris to study but ends up indulging himself in a life of dissipation, culminating in a doomed love affair with a chorus girl. A sparkling evocation of the Parisian scene, the novel is also a study of loneliness and youthful disenchantment told with the great French writer's characteristic irony and wit. A Peter Owen Modern Classic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004269974 |
| Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5" W x 7.34" (0.37 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 life of dissipation with a group of students and their mistresses, he falls in love with Germaine, a chorus girl kept by a rich banker. The affair, doomed from the start, forces Jacques to come to terms not so much with society as he finds it but with himself. |