Enfants Terribles (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Cocteau
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Paris
- Principal Characters: Paul, Elisabeth, Gérard, Agatha, Michael
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Children, Power, personal or social, Teenagers, Love or romance, Suicide, Brothers and sisters, Paris, 1920’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession
- Locales: Paris, France
The Story:
Paul and Elisabeth lived with their paralyzed mother in an old quarter of Paris. They lived in a private, instinctual world, dissociated from adults by passivity, imagination, and secret, mysterious rites. One night, when the quarter was transformed by snow, Paul was wandering among the snowballing groups in search of the school hero Dargelos, whom he worshiped. Dargelos, who possessed great charm, was both vicious and beautiful. As Paul moved toward him, Dargelos, perhaps accidentally, knocked him down with a stone-packed snowball. Although he injured Paul, he...
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