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A review by casparb
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
4.0
Love Cocteau lots and the prose here absolutely slaps. The man cannot miss.
Something to do with the translation renders this, in Part One, into a fairly 50s-ish Englishness. The school of jolly-rather-wouldn't and so on. So the first section of the novel reads like if Nabokov wrote The Famous Five or something, which, having thought of, I want to read. In truth, there is an Ada ring to a lot of this.
My feeling is that JC's films are exquisite and catastrophic and probably perfect - or at least I find the Orpheus trilogy this way. This novel is brilliant and very interesting and worth reading but I wasn't ecstatic as I was for the films. love you jc
Something to do with the translation renders this, in Part One, into a fairly 50s-ish Englishness. The school of jolly-rather-wouldn't and so on. So the first section of the novel reads like if Nabokov wrote The Famous Five or something, which, having thought of, I want to read. In truth, there is an Ada ring to a lot of this.
My feeling is that JC's films are exquisite and catastrophic and probably perfect - or at least I find the Orpheus trilogy this way. This novel is brilliant and very interesting and worth reading but I wasn't ecstatic as I was for the films. love you jc