Dec 22, 2009
Cocteau, as poet, dramatist, essayist, and novelist, was a controversial figure in the avante-garde activities of French art; he also produced ballets, motion pictures, and drawings. Another facet of his multiple personality was the lengthy discussion, after his return to Catholicism, with Jacques Maritain, the great Thomist philosopher. Thus, there was no aspect of the modern intellectual world that he did not touch.
Beginning his career as a dramatist with the Surrealist movement of the 1920’s, Cocteau always practiced what has been called “the...
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