Letter to the Americans - Paperback
by Jean Cocteau
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811231596ISBN-10:811231593UPC:9780811231596Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Essays, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Essays & TraveloguesSize:7.10 x 4.30 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.18Product ID:SCGR61J8PT
In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America's promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront--its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations--in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811231596ISBN-10:811231593UPC:9780811231596Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Essays, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Essays & TraveloguesSize:7.10 x 4.30 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.18Product ID:SCGR61J8PT
Cocteau, Jean: - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a French writer, poet, designer, draftsman, sculptor, filmmaker, and boxing manager. His list of friends--including New Directions' founder James Laughlin--would read like a catalog of the stars of the twentieth-century avant-garde. He died of a heart attack after being informed of the death of his friend, the singer Edith Piaf.Wermer-Colan, Alex: - Alex Wermer-Colan is a writer, editor, dramaturg, and translator living in Philadelphia. His work has appeared in such publications as The Los Angeles Review of Books, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Twentieth Century Literature, The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, The Conversant, Indiana University Press, and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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