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Les Enfants Terribles is a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau, published by Editions Bernard Grasset.It concerns two siblings, Elisabeth and Paul, who isolate themselves from the world as they grow up, an isolation which is shattered by the stresses of their adolescence.
Les Enfants terribles (French pronunciation: [lez‿ɑ̃fɑ̃ teʁibl]; literal English translation: The Terrible Children; English title: The Strange Ones) [2] is a 1950 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, with a screenplay adapted by Jean Cocteau from his 1929 novel of the same name about the tangled relationship of a close brother and sister.
He is best known for his novels Le Grand Écart (1923), Le Livre blanc (1928), and Les Enfants Terribles (1929); the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948 ...
Philip Glass in 1993. Les Enfants terribles is a danced chamber opera for four voices and three pianos (grand pianos or electronic), composed in 1996 by Philip Glass, to a French-language libretto by the composer, in collaboration with the American choreographer Susan Marshall, after Jean Cocteau's eponymous novel published in 1929 and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1950 film.
Pages in category "Novels by Jean Cocteau" ... Les Enfants terribles; W. The White Paper (novel) This page was last edited on 20 August 2024, at 12:15 (UTC) ...
In this story adapted from a novel by Gilbert Adair (itself a reworking of Jean Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles), Louis Garrel and Eva Green play aristocratic twins Theo and Isabelle, who meet a ...
Pages in category "Operas based on works by Jean Cocteau" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Les Enfants terribles (opera) O.
Les Enfants Terribles is a phrase in French that translates as "the terrible children" or "the holy terrors", and may refer to: Les Enfants Terribles, a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau, its English title being "The Holy Terrors" Les Enfants Terribles, a 1950 film of the novel, with collaboration by the author