Research Catalog

Title

The difficulty of being / Jean Cocteau ; translated by Elizabeth Sprigge ; introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien.

Author

Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963

Publication

• Brooklyn : Melville House Publishing, [2013]
• ©2013

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Sprigge, Elizabeth, 1900-1974

Description

xv, 172 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• Reminiscences by one of the seminal figures in 20th century literature and art, including sketches of Proust, Picasso, Gide and Nijinsky.
• By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century and worked with the foremost artists of his time.

Series Statement

Neversink library

Uniform Title

• Difficulté d'être. English
• Neversink library.

Alternative Title

Difficulté d'être.

Subject

• Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
• 1900-1999
• Authors, French > 20th century > Biography
• Motion picture producers and directors > France > Biography
• Artists > France > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: On conversation -- On my childhood -- On my style -- On the work and the legend -- On Raymond Radiguet -- On my physique -- On my escapes -- On France -- On the theatre -- On Diaghilev and Nijinsky -- On the marvels of cinematography -- On friendship -- On dreams -- On reading -- On measurement and Marcel Proust -- On haunted houses -- On pain -- On death -- On frivolity -- On the Palais-Royal -- On the rule of the soul -- On Guillaume Apollinaire -- On laughter -- On being without being -- On words -- On youth -- On beauty -- On customs -- On line -- On a drama in mime -- On responsibility.

ISBN

• 1612192904
• 9781612192901

OCLC

• 813931052
• SCSB-10874626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library