Thomas the Impostor by Cocteau, Jean

Thomas the Impostor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780720612523)

Author: Jean Cocteau
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Format: Paperback
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Thomas the Impostor by Cocteau, Jean

Thomas the Impostor

$13.95
Thomas the Impostor by Cocteau, Jean

Thomas the Impostor

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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Cocteau's breakthrough novel on the horrors of World War I. Too young to fight, Thomas assumes a noble ancestry, adds a few extra years to his age, and becomes a soldier. In this guise, he meets the society star Princess de Bormes and her impressionable daughter Henriette. While the princess pursues charity work with the wounded, Henriette falls in love with Guillaume. However, Guillaume, resplendent in army uniform and issued with a shiny revolver, is lost like a child in a fantasy land of their own creation. At the novel's denouement, he clings to his imposture, but in mind, if not body, he has grasped the real meaning of war. This visionary novel is a "hymn to the cult of youth" in which World War I battlefields become an exaggerated spectacle where fiction and reality are inseparable.

Author: Jean Cocteau
ISBN-10: 0720612527
ISBN-13: 9780720612523
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.34h x 4.90w x 0.45d
By Jean Cocteau
By Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau is regarded as one of France's greatest men of arts and letters. A multi-faceted talent and a recipient of the L馮ion d'honneur, he achieved distinction as a poet, playwright, and critic as well as an artist, illustrator, composer, actor, and internationally acclaimed filmmaker. He was the author of La Belle et la B黎e, Les Enfants Terribles, and Opium. Gilbert Adair is the author of The Real Tadzio.

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