Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Colette, Édith Piaf, whom he cast in one of his one act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940, and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim.
Books
The Art of Cinema
1992
The White Book
1927
Clair-Obscur
Poemes
1954
Beauty and the Beast
Diary of a Film
1946
Bacchus
1998
Letter to the Americans
1949
Diary of an Unknown
1952
Professional Secrets
1970
Opium
1930
Tempest of Stars
1992
The Difficulty of Being
1947
The Journals of Jean Cocteau
1956
Orphee
1927
L'aigle à deux têtes
1944
Past Tense
The Cocteau Diaries, Vol. 1
1983
Five Plays
1961
Les Parents Terribles
1938
Erotica
Drawings
1991
The Great Divide
1921
Le Livre Blanc et autres textes
1999
Thomas the Impostor
1923
My Contemporaries
1968
گلوله
مجموعه داستانهای مینیمال
2005
Cocteau on the Film
1951
Art and Faith
Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau
1948
Antigone suivi de Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel
1922
"Ma chère maman..."
De Baudelaire à Saint-Exupéry, des lettres d'écrivains
2002
The Infernal Machine and Other Plays
1932
Lettres à sa mère (1906–1918)
Choix de lettres
1989
The Human Voice
1929
Round the World Again in 80 Days
1937
La machine infernale
1934
The Holy Terrors
1929
