Les Enfants Terribles

Description

Folio Society edition of Jean Cocteau’s dark, surreal novel. Les Enfants Terribles, written in the space of three weeks in March 1929, is the study of the inviolability of the character of two adolescents, brother and sister Paul and Elisabeth. In 1950 Cocteau prepared the screenplay for a film of this work, and he was also the film’s narrator. Deeply claustrophobic, the work warns of the dangers of choosing to live inside a confected reality. Unsurprisingly it was made into an opera by Philip Glass. This is the 1976 edition in immaculate condition, with the original Folio Society slip case.