Journals Jean Cocteau by Wallace Fowlie (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 250pp, 1956. First Edition. Black cloth hardcover, no dustjacket. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. There are a very few marks and underlinings in the text, with several lines of notes written on the rear free endpaper. No tears. Text in English. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [8],250 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations Footnotes. . Cover has some wear and soiling. No dust jacket present. Editor's Note. Selected Bibliography. Index. There are nine sections in the Contents: Childhood and Early Influences, The Writer's Character, Testimonials, Theatre, Films, Aesthetics, Moral Essays, France, and New York. Among the sub-topics listed are: Marcel Proust, Gide, Surrealists, Guillaume Apollinaire, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Self-Commitment, Raymon Radiguet, Jacques Maritain, Picasso, Reading, Beauty, Injustice, Opium, Friendship, Death, Frivolity, Youth, Sexual Habits, and Responsibility. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Colette, Édith Piaf, whom he cast in one of his one act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940, and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Wallace Fowlie (1908-1998) was an American writer and professor of literature. He was the James B. Duke Professor of French Literature at Duke University where he taught from 1964 to the end of his career. Although he published more than twenty books, he was devoted to teaching, particularly undergraduate courses in French, Italian, and modernist literature. Took his A.B. at Harvard College in 1930, then a Master's in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1936, also at Harvard. Before coming to Duke in 1964, he taught at Bennington College, University of Chicago, and Yale University. Fowlie was also noted for his correspondence with literary figures such as Henry Miller, René Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Saint-John Perse, Marianne Moore, and Anaïs Nin. He is best known for his translations of Arthur Rimbaud, which were appreciated by a younger generation that included Jim Morrison (whose work Fowlie also became a scholar of) and Patti Smith. In 1990, Fowlie consulted with director Oliver Stone on the film The Doors. From the forties onward, Fowlie filled a vacuum in academia. There was room for a great teacher and explainer of significant modern French poets and writers in America and England. For several decades, Fowlie was the pre-eminent critic of French literature in America, something which earned him a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1947.[4] He published book after book on the great French writers he revered, including Mallarmé and Rimbaud. He was the first translator of Rimbaud in English: his Rimbaud, Complete Works, Selected Letters appeared in 1966. This work aligned him with his friend Henry Miller, whose work he championed, and brought Rimbaud to a new generation of fans â" and with it the acknowledgment and gratitude of rock stars Patti Smith and Jim Morrison. Morrison wrote Fowlie a letter which he forgot about until his students played him the music of the Doors. He quickly recognized Rimbaud's influence in the lyrics. Then he remembered and retrieved the letter. As an octogenarian, he published Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel As Poet. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Sidney Butchkes, illustrations by Jean Cocteau (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing, short closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of largely black jacket by Jean Cocteau, spine slightly faded, corners rubbed with small loss, some rubbing to front jacket, some slight browning and time staining to back jacket, some offsetting to endpapers, not price clipped (30/-), previous owner's name to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 250pp, illustrated. The fascinating diaries of Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau (1889-1963), French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the surrealist, avant garde, and Dadaist movements; and one of the most influential figures in early 20th century art as a whole. Cocteau died of a heart attack at his chateau in Milly la Foret, Essonne France, on 11th October 1963 at the age of 74. His friend, French singer Édith Piaf, died the day before but that was announced on the morning of Cocteau's day of death. It has been said, in a story which is almost certainly apocryphal, that his heart failed upon hearing of Piaf's death. Wallace Fowlie (1908-98), was an American writer and professor of French literature. A scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FOWLIE, Wallace [introduction by] [250] pp. Criterion Books, Inc 1956 First Edition 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" Illustrated w/ 16 drawings by the Author Playwright, film director, tells of his life, his work and the people he has known from Proust to Nijinsky and Milhaud from Picasso to Andre Gide and Raymond Radiguet. A selection of writings from the journals of Jean Cocteau. Extracts are grouped under the headings of 'Childhood and Early Influences', 'The Writer's Character', 'Testimonials', 'Theatre', 'Films', 'Aesthetics', 'Moral Essays', 'France', and 'New York'.