- Published: 7 July 2011
- ISBN: 9780099561378
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $27.99
Les Enfants Terribles
- Published: 7 July 2011
- ISBN: 9780099561378
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $27.99
The lasting feeling that his work leaves is one of happiness; not of course in the sense that it excludes suffering, but because, in it, nothing is rejected, resented or regretted
W. H. Auden
Cocteau never meant his work to pass as anyone else's, and even when it is imitative it bears a maker's mark that would disqualify any forger: the stamp of a master of paradox and aesthetic epigram, who supplied a unique - and enduring - connection between the classic and the new
Francis Steegmuller
If La Belle et la Bête his romance, then Les Enfants Terribles is his tragedy. Like the others, it articulates Cocteau's belief in the power of imagination to transform the ordinary world into a world of magic
Philip Glass
Cocteau's tale of young beauties whose isolation leads them towards premature decay...a genuine tragedy
Independent on Sunday
The novel Les Enfants Terrible has become a rite of passage in every French childhood
Guardian