Jean Cocteau

As a student SB continued her extra-curricular reading. She discovered, through her cousin Jacques Champigneulles , the moderns: Alain-Fournier , Cocteau , Montherlant , Gide , Claudel , Valéry , Barrès , and Adrienne Monnier .

In Paris in the 1920s MB engaged with other modernist writers and literary people, including James Joyce , Djuna Barnes , Robert McAlmon , Ford Madox Ford , Bryher , Peggy Guggenheim , Ethel Colburn Mayne

Colette knew all the literary and intellectual world of Paris, including André Gide , Maurice Ravel , and Jean Cocteau . Martha Gellhorn was known to her as Marty.Natalie Barney shared...

The Princesse hosted a salon at 57 Avenue Henri-Martin attended by Anna de Noailles , Cocteau , Paul Valéry , and Proust , who incorporated some of his perceptions of the gatherings into A la...

By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Rabindranath Tagore , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott

The first version of this work of performance art comprised only nine of Sitwell's poems; Walton later added more music. On this occasion ES , hidden between painted stage curtains, recited her poems through a...

MB 's memoir, The Crystal Cabinet; My Childhood at Salterns, left unfinished at her death earlier this year, was published with a frontispiece drawing by Jean Cocteau .

Two hundred and fifty copies of this limited edition were circulated. According to a note from the publisher, this is the first book not written by himself that Cocteau consented to illustrate. Although the...

Imaginary Letters, a novel of letters by MB illustrated by her close friend Jean Cocteau , was published in Paris by Edward W. Titus .

VW 's professional reputation began to shift at about this time. From the early 1920s, she developed an increasingly strong self-image as an adult woman and writer. More and more, her novels both won praise...

HM observed that Paris was deeply influenced by Cocteau 's poem Le Cape de Bonne Espérance. It also is replete with literary and other allusions apart from Cocteau. Though it is frequently read...

Less intimate than Souvenirs indiscrets, this volume includes sketches of Gertrude Stein , Jean Cocteau , Gide , D'Annunzio , and Rabindranath Tagore . One piece, written in response to Ramon Gomez de la Serna

RL published several translations from the French: Jacques Lemarchand 's Geneviève (1947), Jean Cocteau 's Children of the Game (1955, from Les Enfants Terribles), and Jean Cassou 's Letter to Cousin Mary.

This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...