The holy terrors

The holy terrors / by Jean Cocteau ; with ill. by the author ; translated by Rosamond Lehmann.

Paul and Elisabeth, brother and sister, create a private, enclosed world of their own in the single room which they share and which reflects the disorder of their lives and emotions. Their complex emotional and erotic manoeuvres culminate inevitably in suicide.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., c1957.
Series:A New Directions book
Subjects:
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Orphans > Psychology > Fiction.
Deprivation (Psychology) > Fiction.
Social isolation > Fiction.
Jealousy > Fiction.
Suicide > Fiction.
France > Fiction.
Uniform Title:Enfants terribles. English
Description
Summary:Paul and Elisabeth, brother and sister, create a private, enclosed world of their own in the single room which they share and which reflects the disorder of their lives and emotions. Their complex emotional and erotic manoeuvres culminate inevitably in suicide.
Item Description:Translation of Les enfants terribles.
Physical Description:193 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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