BIOGRAFIE COCTEAU Steegmuller Kunstenaar

STEEGMULLER, FRANCIS
Cocteau: A Biography
London, MacMillan. 1970. (ISBN: 9780333012499). 583 pp, 45 illustrations. Hardcover. Used, Hardcover with Jacket. Stofomslag is aan de rand beschadigd (zie foto). Boek zelf in goede staat. Bevat ex libris van New York Public Library. 

Jean Cocteau, who died in 1963 at the age of 74 after 58 years of kaleidoscopic activity in the arts, was a fascinating and paradoxical figure. With the astounding variety of his work - as poet, novelist, playwright, artist and film-maker (merely to begin at the top of the list) - and the contradictions of his private life, the charm and the nastiness, the generosity and the egotism, the poise and anguish of an opium addicted homosexual who was equally welcome in the aristocratic drawing rooms of Paris and the raffish waterfront bars of Toulon, and who crowned a life among the avant garde by entering the ultra conservative precincts of the Académie Française. He provides a rich and challenging subject for biography. Francis Steegmuller is admirably qualified for this task having written the definitive biography of Maupassant and many other biographies.