An edition of Le Grand écart (1923)
The Grand Ecart
By Jean Cocteau
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Publish Date
1925-01-01
Publisher
NY: Putnam's Sons, 1925.
Language
eng
Pages
165
Description:
"Jacques Forestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to beauty in both sexes." "Leaving his provincial family he comes to Paris to study for his degree. Indulging in a life of dissipation with a group of students and their mistresses, he falls in love with Germaine, a chorus girl kept by a rich banker. The affair, doomed from the start, forces Jacques to come to terms not so much with society as he finds it but with himself."--Jacket.