The miscreant
By: Jean Cocteau ; translated from the French by Dorothy Williams.
Contributors: Williams, D. H.
Series: Peter Owen modern classics
Publisher: P. Owen; Distriubted in the USA by Dufour Editions
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; Chester Springs, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
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.
Notes: "First Britishc Commonwealth edition 1958"--T.p. verso.