A review by lottepot
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau

2.0

Meh. I feel as if this was the sort of book that I would have loved when I was a teenager but now on reading it, it just felt very perfunctory without any great insight or characterisation. Some of it was very funny but I think that the relationships were just too underdeveloped and banal, and the whole thing was surprisingly bourgeoisie. The closest thing that I could compare it to is Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh but I think that this is funnier and more successfully satirical.