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Miscreant
Paperback Edition: 1/2003
Jacques Forrestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to to beauty in both sexes. Leaving his provincial family he comes to Paris to study for his degree. Indulging in a life of dissipation
with a group of students and their mistresses, he falls in love with Germaine, a chorus girl kept by a rich banker. The affair, doomed from the start, forces Jacques to come to terms not so much with society as he finds it, but with himself.
A sparkling evocation of the Parisian scene of the 1920s, The Miscreant is also a study of loneliness and youthful disenchantment showcasing the savage irony and epigrammatic wit that consistently distinguished Cocteau's brilliant and highly individualistic prose style.
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A sparkling evocation of the Parisian scene of the 1920s, The Miscreant is also a study of loneliness and youthful disenchantment showcasing the savage irony and epigrammatic wit that consistently distinguished Cocteau's brilliant and highly individualistic prose style.
Pages : 163
Publisher : Peter Owen, UK
Publication date : 2003-02
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction