ISBN: 0060902558
Author: Robert Phelps
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; 1st edition (1970)
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by Jean Cocteau (Author), Robert Phelps (Compiler), Richard Howard (Translator) & 0 more. Opium: The Diary of His Cure.
by Jean Cocteau (Author), Robert Phelps (Compiler), Richard Howard (Translator) & 0 more. Hardcover, January 1, 1970. Brilliant writing, lucidly translated, from one of the masters of 20th Century prose. There isn't a page in this wonderful collection that does not astonish, delight, and inspire me even after repeated reading. Jean Cocteau: A Life.
The full title is Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau
The full title is Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau. Note: an autobiography of, not by, Cocteau. This work, appearing several years after Cocteau's death in 1963, is "Drawn from his Lifetime Writings, by Robert Phelps. Along the way, Cocteau reflects on work, friends, love and life. And he did lead an interesting life.
In 1970, Mr. Phelps compiled ''Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau. Drawn From His Lifetime Writings. In 1951, Mr. Phelps wrote later, he sold the publishing house ''to Barney Rosset and resolved to live by my typewriter
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Drawn from Cocteau’s writing, compiled by Robert Phelps (one of the original founders of Grove Press), and translated by poet Richard Howard, Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau was published.
Drawn from Cocteau’s writing, compiled by Robert Phelps (one of the original founders of Grove Press), and translated by poet Richard Howard, Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau was published by FSG in 1970, the same year as Francis Steegmuller’s Cocteau: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award. A warm bond of friendship, based on their mutual interest in Eugenio Montale, began to grow between Shirley and FSG Publisher Jonathan Galassi after they met in the home of Natalia Murray, the representative of Rizzoli in America and companion of the New Yorker’s estimable Paris correspondent, Janet Flanner.
QUOTE NOTE: Not long after the United States formally entered WWI, jazz and other elements of American culture began to take Europe by storm. Cocteau’s vivid description of that night at the Casino continued: The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path. It is people living in sound.
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