Jean Cocteau (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Never limited by distinctions among genres, Jean Cocteau was an important figure in many arts. After an early and not particularly interesting “dandyistic” phase in his poetry, including La Lampe d’Aladin (1909; Aladdin’s lamp), Le Prince frivole (1910; the frivolous prince), and La Danse de Sophocle (1912; the dance of Sophocles), he was influenced by Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, and he developed a classical rigor and purity mingled with linguistic and imaginative originality. Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance (1919; the...
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