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\"\"<\/a>*THE TRANSLATION <\/span>of Claude ARNAUD’s Jean COCTEAU<\/em><\/span>, BY\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/strong>LAUREN ELKIN and\u00a0\u00a0CHARLOTTE MANDELL<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong>,<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0has been published at\u00a0YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS<\/span>, in the US, on September 27 2016, as : Jean COCTEAU, a life<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>( 40.00$)<\/strong>. PUBLICATION DATE\u00a0IN THE UK: 21 NOVEMBER 2016 (<\/span><\/strong>\u00a3<\/strong>30.00)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
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*\u00ab\u00a0Jean Cocteau was the artistic ringmaster<\/span><\/strong> of 20th century Paris. Claude Arnaud has written the definitive\u2014<\/span>and fascinating\u2014life of this artist<\/span><\/strong> and impresario, and along the way has clarified mysteries about his sexuality and his collaboration<\/span> with the Nazis<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0\u00bb\u2014Edmund White<\/strong><\/h6>\n
*\u00ab\u00a0<\/strong>Arnaud\u2019s<\/strong><\/span> incisive and immensely readable biography<\/strong> of the brilliantly witty albeit flawed Cocteau is a triumph<\/span><\/strong>. Thank God this essential book has finally been translated. Read it and<\/span><\/strong> wallow in twentieth-century art and letters<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00bb\u2014John Richardson<\/span><\/strong>, author of\u00a0A Life of Picasso,<\/em>\u00a0vols. I\u2013III<\/h6>\n
*\u00a0\u00bbClaude Arnaud\u2019s cornucopian biography<\/strong><\/span> give us a marvelous, if in some ways consolingly familiar<\/strong>, portrait of the upper echelons of Parisian aristo artistic circles.<\/span><\/strong> . . . Simply everybody is here: from Mistinguett<\/span><\/strong> to Marcel Proust<\/strong>, Robert de Montesquiou<\/span> <\/strong>to Anna de Noailles<\/strong>, Misia Sert<\/span> <\/strong>to Natalie Barney, we wander through an enchanted period<\/span><\/strong> when talent seemed to earn immediate rewards, spiced by an undercurrent of discreet homosexuality<\/strong>. . . . Claude Arnaud\u2019s work is welcome<\/strong> <\/span>for reminding us just how remarkable its subject was<\/strong>. It is also welcome for its argument that the twentieth century has left few artistic survivors.\u00a0\u00bb\u2014Lachlan Mackinnon<\/strong>, Times Literary Supplement. READ THIS REVIEW, PUBLISHED in 2004…<\/a>
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\"\"<\/a>*The website LITERARY HUB<\/strong><\/span> publishes an online excerpt, dated October 24, 2016, of JEAN COCTEAU, A Life<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, concerning the PROUST<\/span>\/COCTEAU<\/strong> friendship, made of love, jalousy and treason<\/span><\/strong>. As a title : \u00ab\u00a0Literary Frenemies: Jean COCTEAU<\/strong> and Marcel PROUST\u00a0\u00bb, and subtitle : \u00ab\u00a0One has to resolve oneself to face the fact that you are not a true friend<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb READ THAT EXCERPT<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u2026\"\"<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span> illuminates JEAN COCTEAU<\/strong> and MARCEL PROUST<\/span>\u2019<\/strong>s friendship\u2019s slow fade\u00a0\u00bb, writes HARRIETT STAFF<\/strong><\/span>, on a poetry blog posted in Poetry News<\/span><\/em> on Monday, October 24th, 2016 by The POETRY FOUNDATION<\/strong><\/span>. READ THIS POST<\/a>…<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>*\u00ab\u00a0The first substantial life of the French surrealist writer and artist to appear in English since 1970<\/strong> <\/span>(\u2026) Arnaud\u2019s biography provides a useful corrective and will inspire renewed interest in Cocteau\u2019s work.\u00bb<\/strong> KIRKUS REVIEW<\/span><\/em>,<\/strong> July\u00a04th,\u00a02016. Read the article in its entirety<\/a>\u2026<\/h5>\n
\u00a0\"\"*PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u00a0<\/em>publishes an advance review online <\/strong><\/strong><\/span>: \u00a0\u00bb Originally released in France in 2003, this sweeping biography<\/span> of Jean Cocteau is now available in English for the first time<\/strong>. Claude\u00a0Arnaud<\/span> (Chamfort: A Biography<\/em>) has composed an insightful profile, rich in detail and exhaustive in its scope, that honors and illuminates its multifaceted subject<\/span>, who was a poet, playwright, author, designer, and filmmaker.<\/strong> The dense tome traces the stormy trajectory of Cocteau\u2019s life, beginning with an idyllic childhood shattered by his father\u2019s suicide.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb Read the review in its entirety<\/a>\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n
*KIRKUS REVIEW<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0publishes, on september 27, 2016, an online interview of Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0about the writing of his\u00a0JEAN COCTEAU, A LIFE<\/span><\/strong><\/em>. By\u00a0\u00a0RHETT MORGAN<\/strong>.<\/h5>\n
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READ THIS INTERVIEW<\/a>\u2026<\/h5>\n
\"\"AUGUST 23, 2016 : JEAN COCTEAU, A LIFE<\/span><\/strong><\/em>, is selected by Tobias CAROL<\/strong>L, for the Online review SIGNATURE<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, as one of the \u00ab\u00a0SIX DOORSTOPPERS OF <\/strong>YOUR AUTOMN READING PLEASURE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00bb\u2026<\/h5>\n
*\u00ab\u00a0At long last translated into English,\u00a0here\u2019s an enormous \u2013 and enormously sympathetic \u2013 biography<\/span> of the weirdly eccentric artist, director, and writer\u00a0Jean COCTEAU<\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0, writes\u00a0Steve DONOGHUE<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the\u00a0Online magazine Openletters monthly (September 15, 2016)<\/strong>.\u00a0Here\u2019s is full review\u2026<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/h5>\n
*The Washington Free Beacon publishes<\/strong>, on October 16, 2016<\/strong><\/span>, an online review, \u00ab\u00a0WHEN ART MATTERED\u00a0\u00bb<\/span>, signed Bruce Fleming<\/strong> of \u00ab\u00a0J<\/em><\/strong>ean COCTEAU, a LifE\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> ,\"\"<\/a> by Claude ARNAUD<\/strong>:<\/h6>\n
\u00ab\u00a0This is an exhaustive and exhausting book<\/span><\/strong>\u2014including all the people COCTEAU<\/strong> rubbed shoulders with famous and semi-famous names jostling on the page to re-create a world<\/strong><\/span> that was brought to an end by the dawning of our world in the aftermath of World War II. But at least it\u2019s an evocation of a vanished era as if it still mattered<\/span>\u2014and that\u2019s good.<\/strong> You want intensity from the person telling you the story you\u2019re listening to; ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span> is nothing if not intense<\/strong><\/span>. After all, if it\u2019s narrated with ironic distance, absolutely nobody will care. And there is no distance here<\/span><\/strong>: it\u2019s like the poet falling into the water mirror. All of a sudden, there you are, side by side with PROUST<\/span>, GIDE, Anna de NOAILLES<\/span>, NIJINSKY, STRAVINSKY<\/span>, PICASSO, and dozens of lesser lights (\u2026)<\/strong> The artistic world of \u201cl\u2019entre-les-deux-guerres\u201d Paris is lovingly chronicled\u2026 and rendered by his translators in supple English that doesn\u2019t read like a translation<\/strong><\/span> (\u2026) The charm of ARNAUD<\/strong>\u2019s book is that he seems to re-create the adolescent intensity of Cocteau\u2019s world<\/strong><\/span>, the one where the latest show at the Ballets Russes<\/strong> was all anybody talked about, and where Being Part of It All was the only thing that mattered. Reading it is like diving down to Atlantis.<\/strong> Take a weekend and take the plunge. When you get back, there will be a moment where you wonder where you\u2019ve been\u2014and where you are.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
READ THIS ONLINE REVIEW<\/a>\u2026<\/h6>\n
*The dunce gets a doorstop<\/span>: A Life of Jean Cocteau\u00a0\u00bb, WRITES KEvin McMahon int he LARB: <\/span><\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0THE MOST FAMOUS unknown modernist<\/strong> has never lacked biographers \u2014 beginning with himself \u2014 but Claude ARNAUD\u2019s 2003 epic<\/span>,\"\"<\/a> now available in English courtesy of Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandel, is the first to attempt the impossible<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span> a continuous narrative of Jean COCTEAU<\/strong>\u2019s life, instead of selected highlights. The result is an unwieldy 1,000+ page doorstop. But the vastness is not vacuous<\/span>; it\u2019s the space necessary to unreel COCTEAU\u2019s story in full<\/strong>. If some of the previous biographies, like Francis Steegmuller<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s 1970 classic, are more readable, it\u2019s because they weren\u2019t as ambitious<\/strong>. Readers owe Arnaud thanks for dispatching a job that none before him had the stamina to face\u00a0<\/span>\u00bb. Read in its entirety this review<\/a>\u2026.<\/strong><\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>*IN ITS NOVEMBER 24, 2016 ISSUE<\/strong>, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS<\/em><\/span><\/strong> PUBLISHES AN EDMUND WHITE\u2019S<\/strong> REVIEW OF \u00ab\u00a0JEAN COCTEAU, A LIFE<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> BY CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/span><\/strong>. READ THE BEGINING OF THAT REVIEW<\/span><\/strong>, UNTITLED \u00ab\u00a0THE HIGH WIRE OF JEAN COCTEAU\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>\u2026<\/h6>\n
*This ED WHITE’S REVIEW<\/strong><\/span> has been translated in greek by the athen<\/strong><\/em>\"\"<\/a> review of books<\/strong><\/em> (N\u00b0 80-81, February 2017): \u0388\u03bd\u03c4\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4 \u039f\u03c5\u03ac\u03b9\u03c4 (Edmund White), \u03a4\u03bf \u03c4\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf \u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03b9\u03bd\u03af \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u0396\u03b1\u03bd \u039a\u03bf\u03ba\u03c4\u03ce. READ MORE<\/a>…<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
\"\"*\u00a0\u00bbIn 2003, Claude Arnaud drew on years of research<\/strong><\/span> to compose an epic take on the life of this misunderstood artist<\/strong>, giving him his proper due as a unique and influential artist, one can read on a post Posted by KC on \u00ab\u00a0Watching classic movie \u00ab\u00a0<\/span>, Oct 21, 2016<\/em><\/strong>. It is a dense work, full of daily details and a cast of characters more populated than a Russian novel.<\/span><\/strong> It takes great patience to navigate, but offers a rewarding history of a man, the great geniuses he knew<\/span> and the time in which he lived<\/strong>. In its recent English translation the beauty and irritation of this massive work retains the feel of its culture, occasionally even taking on the otherworldly, fanciful voice of its subject.READ that review<\/a>…<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0It took 13 years for an English translation of this impressive biography to appear<\/strong><\/span>. Arnaud<\/strong> (Chamfort: A Biography<\/strong><\/em>) takes readers on a journey that presents the extraordinary<\/span> but also complicated life<\/strong> of Jean Cocteau<\/strong> <\/span>(1889\u20131963).\u00a0Arnaud<\/span><\/strong> describes an individual who was often misunderstood and unfairly considered an opportunist or imitator of other writers<\/strong>. His depiction of Cocteau’s opium addiction and attempts at detox is particularly fascinating<\/strong><\/span>. This work is also an excellent study of human dynamics with friends coming in and out of the artist’s life.<\/strong> Openly gay during a time when homosexuality was still considered taboo, Cocteau always had a strong desire to please, even when it was futile. VERDICT An outstanding portrait of a chameleonic individual, this work will appeal to individuals interested in LGBTQ history, French culture, and literature<\/strong><\/span>.\u2014Erica Swenson Danowitz<\/strong>, Delaware Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Media, PA. Copyright 2016 Library Journal<\/em><\/strong>. READ THIS REVIEW<\/a>….<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0COCTEAU, WE CAN KNOW NOW THANKS TO THIs FINE BIOGRAPHY BY CLAUDE ARNAUD,<\/strong><\/span> REMAINS UNSURPASSABLE<\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0, to believe<\/strong> Ricky D’AMBROSE<\/strong>, critic and filmaker<\/strong>. READ HIS REVIEW (01\/23\/2017)<\/strong><\/span> – IN THE WINGS OF REALITY<\/em><\/strong> – PUBLISHED BY<\/strong> THE NATION<\/em><\/a>…<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0The postwar period, vividly evoked by ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>, was COCTEAU<\/strong>\u2019s moment, especially since the death of APPOLINAIRE<\/strong> in 1918 had removed from the scene his most conspicuous rival, writes Vincent GIROUD<\/strong><\/span> in a review untitled \u00ab\u00a0A Cocteau for our time<\/strong><\/em>\u00ab\u00a0, published by THE <\/em><\/strong><\/span>YALE REVIEW<\/span> (<\/strong>Volume 105, Issue 2<\/span>, April 2017 Pages 158\u2013163)<\/span><\/em> (…)\u00a0 In that same year, he acquired another godson<\/strong> in the precocious Raymond Radiguet<\/strong><\/span>, who before the age of sixteen had already written a novel about a woman having an affair with an adolescent boy while her husband is at the front. (…) Arnaud<\/span><\/strong> writes sympathetically and movingly about this one-way love affair \u2013 Radiguet<\/strong> was irreversibly heterosexual<\/strong> \u2013 and the depth of Cocteau<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s despair when Radiguet<\/strong> died of typhoid in December 1923 (…) Another subject Arnaud<\/strong><\/span> treats at length and with subtlety is the extraordinary animosity Cocteau<\/strong> encountered from the surrealist group<\/strong><\/span>. In the case of its founder and \u2018\u2018pope\u2019\u2019 Andr\u00e9 Breton<\/strong><\/span>, it is clear that sheer homophobia played a role at least equal to literary jealousy and aesthetic preference, such as Breton<\/strong>\u2019s distaste for music and the theater (…) So much has been insinuated about Cocteau\u2019s attitude during the Nazi occupation of France<\/strong> that it is good to have Arnaud<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s dispassionate assessment. READ THIS ON-LINE REVIEW<\/a>…<\/h6>\n
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\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0…the magnitude of Cocteau’s achievement<\/span> is receding from view to an extent that only Claude Arnaud’s masterful new biography<\/span>, Jean Cocteau: A Life<\/em> (Yale), might counter, writes Tim pfaff<\/span> in a review untitled \u00ab\u00a0a biographer dream<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0, publihed by the Bay aera reporter<\/span><\/em>, vol. 47, n. 17.<\/span> 27 april 2017<\/span>. There isn’t a boring or un-illuminating sentence in its 1,000 pages<\/span>, now in a fine English translation by Lauren Elkins<\/span> and Charlotte Mandel. Such as the reader tires, it’s not from the exhaustive research<\/span>, but by the nearly superhuman energy its subject brought to an astonishing array of artistic activities\u00a0\u00bb<\/span>. READ this on-line review<\/a>…<\/strong><\/h6>\n
\u00ab\u00a0JEAN COCTEAU, A LIFE<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>, has been longlisted for the 2017 PEN CLUB Jacqueline Bograd\"\"<\/a> Weld Award for Biography<\/span>. It is the only translated book in the list.<\/strong> SEE THE LONGLISTED BOOKS<\/a>\u2026<\/h6>\n
*Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud<\/span>, translated by Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell<\/span>, has <\/em><\/strong>been selected as one of five non-fiction finalists for the 30th Annual French-American Foundation Translation Prize<\/span>. The awards ceremony will be held on 8 June 2017<\/span>. The winning translator receives $10,000<\/span>. DISCOVER THE FINALISTS<\/a>…JEAN COTEAU: A life, won this 30th prize…<\/a>
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\u00ab\u00a0JEAN COCTEAU A LIFE\u00a0\u00bb, IN THE 2017\u2032S BEST LGTB NONFICTION<\/span>, FOR THE BAY AERA REPORTER<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u00ab\u00a0IF ANY 20TH-CENTURY CREATIVE GENIUS WARRANTS A 1,000-PAGE BIOGRAPHY,\u00a0IT\u2019S\u00a0JEAN COCTEAU<\/span>,\u00a0MASTER OF MANY TRADES, INFLUENCER OF ARTISTS ARGUABLY HIS SUPERIORS<\/span>,\u00a0AND, AGAINST ALL ODDS, A BREATHTAKINGLY HIGH-ACHIEVING OPIUM ADDICT,\u00a0WRITES\u00a0TIM PFAFF<\/span>\u00a0IN\u00a0THE BAY AREA REPORTER<\/em>\u00a0PUBLISHED 12\/21\/2017<\/strong>.\u00a0CLAUDE ARNAUD\u2019S EXTRAORDINARY BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(OXFORD \u2013\u00a0MISTAKE, IT\u2019S YALE UP!<\/em>\u00a0), NEWLY TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,\u00a0TURNS AN AUTHORITATIVE HISTORY THAT SEEMS TO LEAVE OUT NOTHING\u00a0INTO A BONA FIDE PAGE-TURNER.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0FAIR WARNING:\u00a0THIS IS THE KIND OF SCHOLARLY BOOK THAT COULD COST YOU ADDITIONAL MONEY<\/strong>, TRACKING DOWN AND RE-EXAMINING THE MULTIPLE FACETS OF\u00a0COCTEAU<\/strong>\u2018S ART,\u00a0ALL OF WHICH ARNAUD WRITES ABOUT WITH DEEPLY INFORMED DELECTATION<\/strong>.<\/span> \u00bb<\/h6>\n
*EVERY YEAR\u00a0CHOICE<\/em><\/span>\u00a0PUBLISHES A LIST OF\u00a0OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLES<\/span>\u00a0THAT WERE REVIEWED\u00a0DURING THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR.\u00a0THIS PRESTIGIOUS LIST\u00a0<\/span>REFLECTS THE BEST IN SCHOLARLY TITLES REVIEWED IN\u00a0CHOICE<\/span><\/em>:\u00a0IT CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY TWO PERCENT OF SOME\u00a06,000 WORKS REVIEWED IN CHOICE<\/span><\/em> EACH YEAR.\u00a0THE AWARD IS GRANTED BY\u00a0THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION<\/span>\u00a0TO BOOKS ON THE BASIS OF\u00a0\u201c THEIR EXCELLENCE IN SCHOLARSHIP AND PRESENTATION AND THEIR VALUE AS IMPORTANT \u2013OFTEN THE FIRST \u2013 TREATMENT OF THEIR SUBJECT\u201d.\u00a0THE EDITORS APPLY SEVERAL CRITERIA TO REVIEWED TITLES:<\/span>
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JEAN COCTEAU, A LIFE<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0BY\u00a0CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/span>\u00a0(YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS)<\/strong>, HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF THESE\u00a0OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLES<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>IN 2018<\/strong>.\u00a0READ MORE<\/a>\u2026<\/strong><\/h6>\n
*\u00a0\u00bb[Arnaud<\/strong><\/span>] goes beyond the myth and brings to life the cultural history of the 20th century.<\/span><\/strong> A remarkable accomplishment.\u201d\u2014C. B. Kerr<\/strong><\/span>, Choice<\/em><\/h6>\n

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*\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0The book<\/strong> is essential reading for anyone interested in French social and cultural history<\/strong> <\/span>spanning Proustian Paris<\/strong>, two world wars, the modernist movement<\/strong><\/span>, and after. It offers a fascinating portrait<\/strong><\/span> of its conflicted subject whose mutability could be a challenge to any biographer\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>, writes keith garebian<\/strong><\/span> in world literature today<\/em>. Read this review<\/a>…\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n
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\u00ab\u00a0Feb 16, 2017<\/span> Mandy rated it *****:<\/strong><\/h6>\n
I\u2019ve seen this long,<\/span> meticulously and painstakingly researched and exhaustively detailed<\/span> biography of Jean Cocteau described as \u201cmonumental\u201d and \u201ca landmark\u201d \u2013 and I totally agree. Originally<\/span> published in France in 2003 it has now been translated into English (and what a task that must have been<\/span>) \u2013 and now around 1,000 pages of densely written text of often convoluted and high-flown narrative<\/span> is now available to a wider audience. This is not a book for the faint-hearted as it demands a certain amount of stamina to wade through it but the effort is richly rewarded<\/span>. It\u2019s a sweeping study of a complex artist who knew just about everyone who was anyone during his long life, which makes the biography not only fascinating in itself but also opens a window into a whole range of other artists\u2019 lives, from Picasso to Nijinsky, Coco Chanel to Proust<\/span> and many many others on the way. A very impressive book indeed.<\/span>\u00ab\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>*A Conversation on Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>\u2018s biography, Jean Cocteau: A Life<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 took place in NYC at Albertine bookshop<\/strong><\/span>, on\u00a0Tuesday, December 14, 2016 7:00 pm<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0Join Jonas Mekas<\/strong><\/span>, John Richardson<\/strong>, and Edmund White<\/strong><\/span> as they discuss Claude Arnaud\u2019s passionate and monumental biography of Jean Cocteau<\/strong><\/span>\u2013which reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/h6>\n
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\"\"<\/a>The cover of the 449th issue of LITERARY REVIEW<\/em><\/strong> (December 2016, UK<\/span>) is dedicated to JEAN COCTEAU A LIFE<\/strong><\/em>, the english translation of COCTEAU<\/em><\/strong>, by CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/span>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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\u00ab\u00a0Arnaud\u2019s biography is very long (over a thousand pages, including index<\/span>), but it seldom feels <\/strong><\/strong>padded<\/strong>, writes KEVIN JACKSON<\/strong><\/span> in his review.\u00a0 His style \u2013 rendered into English with, he notes, some help from Donna TARTT<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 is as lyrical as it is ungrammatical, and he allows himself moments of speculative excess that will strike many readers as silly: \u2018Some days he was so full of joy that he looked like a fetus daubing the wall with his placenta.\u2019 Over the top, to be sure, and yet quite well suited to his flamboyant subject.<\/strong> <\/span>Jean-Luc Godard once wrote an article in praise of Cocteau that repeatedly asked, \u2018When did you last see Orph\u00e9e<\/em>?<\/strong>\u2019 The triumph of Arnaud\u2019s work is that it makes you keen not just to watch<\/span> that great film again but to explore the whole of Cocteau\u2019s delicate, fascinating universe (…) Are we wrong to neglect him? We are.<\/span> Arnaud\u2019s eloquent and loving portrait of his hero should persuade all but the most dogged of Cocteauphobes that we are denying ourselves a great deal of pleasure.<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb READ THIS REVIEW<\/a>\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
\u00ab\u00a0All biography is both an act of homage and a labour of dissection,\"\"<\/a> and all biographers are jealous of their subjects, write Duncan FALLOWELL<\/strong><\/span> in the Spectator (01\/7\/2017). Most keep it cool, but some like it hot and have created a distinct category in which jealousy becomes murder followed by necromancy<\/span>: the one they hug is asphyxiated \u2014 but lo! \u2014 they breathe their own air back into it. Sartre\u2019s book on Jean Genet is such a work,<\/span> as are Brigid Brophy\u2019s on Ronald Firbank and Roger Lewis\u2019s on Anthony Burgess. Claude Arnaud\u2019s on Jean Cocteau is yet another.<\/span> Its approach is intensely romantic. Everyone is heaving in lurid colours.<\/span> Arnaud certainly knows his material; and that he carefully references printed sources along the way is adroit, a necessity to the illusion, like the pins which hold a provisional costume together. The result is a mind-boggling excursion through Cocteau\u2019s many milieux: from his teenage beginnings as a poet in Proustian Paris; through the Great War and the Modern movement<\/span> of the 1920s in collaboration with Diaghilev<\/span>, Satie, Stravinsky<\/span> and Picasso; followed by the macabre uncertainties of the 1930s and later in Nazi-occupied Paris<\/span>; and on to postwar film making and international celebrity.<\/span> The parade of boyfriends and benefactresses is spectacular, and the near-lifelong opium addiction is paralleled by the manner in which the story moves forward in a kind of peristaltic reverie\u00a0\u00bb<\/span>. READ THIS REVIEW.<\/a>..<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0ARNAUD’S<\/span> BIOGRAPHY is full of scenes where individual and group histories intersect<\/span>; his account of occupied Paris<\/span>, for instance, captures the eerie atmosphere<\/span> of a city where clocks were set to German time. A literary biography deals in facts, but some of the pleasure of the form<\/span> is in the palpable contrast beetween the word in which the subject lives<\/span>, and the word as it appears to the subject\u00a0\u00bb, writes Anne STILLMAN<\/span> in an essay untitled Cocteaux<\/span>, <\/em>in the London Review of Books<\/span> (vol. 39 N\u00b014<\/span>, 13 july 2017) Read that essay<\/a>…<\/h5>\n
*FOR THE REST, CRITICS HAVE BEEN RATHER <\/strong>NEGATIVE<\/span>, IF NOT AGRESSIVE, IN THE UK: COCTEAU<\/span> IS NOT WELL-KOWN THERE. READ MICHAEL PRODGER’S<\/span> REVIEW IN \u00ab\u00a0THE TIMES\u00a0\u00bb, DECEMBER 3, 2016..<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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\"\"<\/a>READ JAMES CAMPBELL’S<\/span> REVIEW IN \u00ab\u00a0THE WALL STREET JOURNAL\u00a0\u00bb (EUROPE EDITION), DECEMBRE 23. 2016:\u00a0 THE CLOWN PRINCE OF MODERNISM<\/span><\/em>.<\/a>.. <\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
*GET THAT BOOK<\/span>\u00a0in the UK<\/a>\u2026AND IN<\/span> LONDON<\/span>, VIA JOHN SANDOE BOOKS\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n
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At the Tate Modern bookshop…\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

…at Gay’s the world booksop (London, UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At John Sandoe Bookshop, in London (Ph: Stephanie Shilling<\/em>)<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>At Shakespeare and Company, in Paris<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Le 27 septembre 2016<\/strong>, Yale University press<\/strong>\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>publi\u00e9 la version anglo-saxonne de la biographe que<\/em> Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span> consacra, en 2003, \u00e0 Jean COCTEAU<\/strong>. Traduite par Lauren ELKIN <\/strong><\/span>et Charlotte MANDELL, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0adapt\u00e9e par l\u2019auteur<\/strong>. Lauren Elkin<\/strong> <\/span>est ma\u00eetre de conf\u00e9rence en anglais et en\u00a0 litt\u00e9rature compar\u00e9e <\/strong><\/em>\u00e0 l\u2019 American University de Paris.\u00a0Charlotte Mandell<\/span><\/strong> est la traductrice de plus de\u00a0 trente ouvrages, romans ou essais.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n
Dans l\u2019argumentaire<\/span>:<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n
\u201cJean COCTEAU<\/strong> \u00e9tait\u00a0 le Monsieur Loyal du XX\u00b0 si\u00e8cle<\/strong> <\/span>\u00e0 Paris. Claude ARNAUD a \u00e9crit la vie d\u00e9finitive \u2013 et fascinante<\/span> \u2013 de ce cr\u00e9ateur et impresario, en \u00e9clairant tous les recoins de sa sexualit\u00e9, mais aussi de sa collaboration avec les nazis<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb Edmund WHITE.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
*\u00ab\u00a0La biographie p\u00e9n\u00e9trante et immens\u00e9ment lisible d\u2019ARNAUD, d\u00e9di\u00e9e au brillant quoi qu\u2019imparfait COCTEAU<\/span>, a quelque chose de triomphal.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> Dieu merci, ce livre d\u00e9cisif est enfin traduit!<\/strong> Le lire, c\u2019est s\u2019immerger dans les arts et les lettres du XX\u00b0 si\u00e8cle<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00bb\u2014John RICHARDSON<\/strong><\/em>, biographe de PICASSO<\/span>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
*\u00a0\u00bbL\u2019in\u00e9puisable biographie de Claude ARNAUD fait le tableau \u00e9blouissant, mais aussi agr\u00e9ablement familier, des tout premiers cercles artistiques et artistocratiques parisiens<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span> . . Tout le monde est tout simplement pr\u00e9sent : de MISTINGUETT<\/strong> \u00e0 Marcel PROUST<\/strong><\/span>, de Robert de MONTESQUIOU<\/strong> \u00e0 Anna de NOAILLES<\/strong><\/span>, de Misia SERT<\/strong> \u00e0 Natalie BARNEY<\/strong>,<\/span> nous \u00e9voluons \u00e0 travers une \u00e9poque enchant\u00e9e o\u00f9 le talent semble aussit\u00f4t r\u00e9compens\u00e9, et qui est ici relev\u00e9e du piquant d\u2019une discr\u00e8te homosexualit\u00e9.\u00a0 Le livre de Claude ARNAUD<\/span><\/strong> vient \u00e0 point rappeler combien COCTEAU<\/span> \u00e9tait un homme d\u2019exception, le XX\u00b0 si\u00e8cle ayant laiss\u00e9 peu de survivants artistiques.\u00a0\u00bb <\/strong>\u2014Lachlan MACKINNON<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Times Literary Supplement<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
* FEUILLETER L\u2019INTRODUCTION<\/a>\u2026<\/h5>\n
*Le site LITERARY HUB<\/strong><\/span> publie un extrait de la traduction am\u00e9ricain du COCTEAU<\/strong><\/em><\/span> de Claude\"\"<\/a> ARNAUD<\/strong>, en date du 24 Octobre 2016<\/strong><\/span>, qui touche \u00e0 la relation, faite d\u2019amour, de jalousie et de trahison, qui unit PROUST<\/span> et COCTEAU<\/strong>. Avec pour titre: \u00ab\u00a0Annemis litt\u00e9raires\u00a0<\/span>\u00bb et pour sous-titre:\u00a0 \u00ab\u00a0Il faut se r\u00e9soudre \u00e0 admettre que vous n\u2019\u00eates pas un v\u00e9ritable ami\u00a0\u00bb<\/span>.<\/h5>\n
POUR LIRE CET EXTRAIT (EN ANGLAIS)<\/a>\u2026<\/h5>\n
\u00ab\u00a0CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/span> illumine la relation COCTEAU<\/span>\/PROUST<\/strong> et son lent d\u00e9clin, \u00e9crit de son c\u00f4t\u00e9\"\"<\/a> HARRIETT<\/strong><\/span> STAFF<\/strong> dans son POETRY BLOG<\/strong>, publi\u00e9 le 24 octobre 2016<\/strong> par le site POETRY FOUNDATION<\/strong><\/span>. Pour lire ce blog<\/a> (en anglais)\u2026<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>*Le magazine en ligne\u00a0KIRKUS REVIEW<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0publie, le 27 septembre 2016, une interview de\u00a0CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/strong>\u00a0au sujet de sa biographie de\u00a0COCTEAU<\/span><\/em>, men\u00e9e par\u00a0RHETT MORGAN<\/strong>.\u00a0Pour lire cette Interview (en anglais)<\/a>\u2026<\/h5>\n
Le<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u00a023 AOUT 2016 : JEAN COCTEAU, A LIFE\u00a0<\/span>a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi par\u00a0Tobias CAROL<\/strong>L, dans la revue en ligne\u00a0SIGNATURE<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, comme l’un des \u00ab\u00a0SIX PAVES QUI FERONT LES DELICES DE VOS LECTURES D’AUTOMNE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00bb\u2026<\/h5>\n
*\u00ab\u00a0Enfin traduite en anglais,<\/span> voici la ph\u00e9nom\u00e9nale \u2013 et attachante \u2013 biographie de l\u2019artiste\"\"<\/a>\u00a0excentrique, du cin\u00e9aste bizarre et de l\u2019\u00e9crivain unique que fut<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Jean COCTEAU\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>, \u00e9crit\u00a0Steve DONOGHUE<\/strong>\u00a0dans le magazine mensuelle en ligne\u00a0OPENLETTERS,\u00a0<\/strong>en date du 15 septembre 2016. Pour d\u00e9couvrir cet article\u00a0in extenso (<\/a>en anglais)\u2026<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>Le WASHINGTON FREE BEACON<\/strong><\/span> publie, en ligne, un article de Bruce FLEMING, \u00ab\u00a0QUAND L’ART COMPTAIT\u00a0\u00bb<\/span>,\u00a0<\/strong> sur la traduction en anglais de la biographie de JEAN COCTEAU<\/strong> par <\/span>Claude ARNAUD<\/span>,<\/strong>\u00a0publi\u00e9e par Yale University Pres:<\/h5>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Voici un livre \u00e0 la fois exhaustif et \u00e9puisant<\/strong>, qui comprend tous les gens que COCTEAU<\/strong> c\u00f4toya, vedettes et semi-vedettes se bousculant\u00a0 pour recr\u00e9er un monde disparu \u00e0 la fin de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale<\/strong>. Mais au moins ce monde est-il \u00e9voqu\u00e9 comme s\u2019il comptait toujours autant \u2013 et c\u2019est une bonne chose. Vous attendez de l\u2019intensit\u00e9, de la part des gens qui vous racontent un histoire, et Claude ARNAUD est tout sauf mou<\/strong>.<\/span> Tout le monde se d\u00e9sint\u00e9resse d\u2019une histoire racont\u00e9e avec ironie et distance \u2013 et il n\u2019y a aucune distance ici. Vous tombez dans le miroir d\u2019eau de Cocteau et vous retrouvez c\u00f4te \u00e0 c\u00f4te avec PROUST<\/span>, GIDE, Anna de NOAILLES<\/span>, NIJINSKY, STRAVINSKY<\/span>, PICASSO\u00a0<\/strong> (\u2026) Le monde artistique de \u201cl\u2019entre-les-deux-guerres\u201d parisien est chroniqu\u00e9 avec gr\u00e2ce et rendu avec souplesse par les traductrices, si bien que le tout n\u2019a pas l\u2019air issu d\u2019une traduction<\/strong> (\u2026) Le charme du livre d\u2019ARNAUD<\/strong>\u00a0 tient \u00e0 sa recr\u00e9ation de l\u2019intensit\u00e9 adolescente du monde de COCTEAU<\/strong><\/span>, celui ou tout le monde parlait du dernier spectacle des BALLETS RUSSES<\/strong> et o\u00f9 \u00eatre dans le coup, artistiquement, \u00e9tait vraiment la seule chose qui comptait<\/strong>. Lire cette biographie c\u2019est plonger dans l\u2019Atlandide. Prenez un week-end et plongez t\u00eate la premi\u00e8re.<\/span> En en revenant \u00e0 aujourd\u2019hui, vous vous demanderez dans quel monde vous naviguiez, et dans lequel vous vous r\u00e9veillez.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Pour l\u2019article in extenso (en anglais)<\/a>\u2026<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>Dans un post publi\u00e9 par la Los Angeles Review of Book<\/strong><\/em>s, en date du 17 octobre 2016, sous le titre: \u00ab\u00a0Cocteau-le-cancre a enfin son pav\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, <\/span>Kevin McMahon<\/span><\/span> \u00e9crit<\/span><\/strong>:<\/h6>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Les plus connus des avant-gardiste inconnus<\/span><\/strong> n\u2019ont jamais manqu\u00e9 de biographes \u2013 \u00e0 commencer par eux-m\u00eames! -, mais la biographie \u00e9pique publi\u00e9e en 2003 par<\/strong> Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>, aujourd\u2019hui disponible en anglais dans la traduction de Lauren Elkin et Charlotte Mandell<\/strong>, est la premi\u00e8re \u00e0 r\u00e9ussir l\u2019impossible<\/strong><\/span>, en offrant un r\u00e9cit continu de la vie de COCTEAU, au lieu d\u2019une s\u00e9lection de hauts faits. Le r\u00e9sultat tient en un pav\u00e9 complexe de plus de 1000 pages, dont l’amplitude n\u2019est pas vaine; elle est l\u2019espace n\u00e9cessaire pour donner corps \u00e0 l\u2019histoire v\u00e9cue par COCTEAU.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Si quelques-unes des pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents biographies, celle de Francis Steegmuller<\/span> (1970) en particulier, qui faisait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, sont plus lisibles, c\u2019est qu\u2019elles n\u2019\u00e9taient pas aussi ambitieuses<\/strong>. L\u2019on doit \u00e0 Claude ARNAUD d\u2019avoir fait le travail que personne avant lui n\u2019avait eu l\u2019\u00e9nergie de faire\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Pour lire cet article in extenso (en anglais)<\/a>\u2026<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>*Dans son numero<\/span> date du 24 NOVEMBre 2016<\/strong>, la NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS<\/span><\/em><\/strong> PUBLIe une critique, sign\u00e9e EDMUND WHITE, du<\/strong> COCTEAU<\/strong><\/em><\/span> de CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/strong>, PUBLI\u00e9 en anglais aux presses de l’universit\u00e9 de Yale<\/strong><\/span>. POUR LIRE L’AMORCE DE CET ARTICLE,<\/strong> \u00ab COCTEAU sur la corde raide\u00bb<\/a>\u2026 CET ARTICLE a ete traduit en grece par la athen review of books<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, dans son numero 80\/81, date de fevrier 2017<\/strong>. en savoir PLUS<\/a>…<\/h6>\n
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\"\"<\/a>*\u00a0\u00bbEN 2003, CLAUDE ARNAUD CONSACRA DES ANNEES DE RECHERCHE A COMPOSER UN RECIT EPIQUE DE LA VIE DE CET ARTISTE MAL COMPRIS, ET a RESTITUER SON INFLUENCE\u00a0 UNIQUE<\/strong><\/span>, peut-on lire dans un poste sign\u00e9 KCn, sur le site \u00ab\u00a0Watching classic movie\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, en date du 21 octobre 2016<\/strong>. C’EST UN LIVRE DENSE, PLEINE DE DETAILS VIVANTS ET AUSSI RICHE EN CARACTERES QU’UN ROMAN RUSSE<\/strong>. IL DEMANDE DE LA PATIENCE, MAIS IL DONNE, EN RECOMPENSE, LA SUBSTANCE D’UNE VIE, a travers lES GENIES QU’ELLE RENCONTRA et l’EPOQUE ou ELLE S’INSCRIVIT.<\/strong><\/span> SA RECENTE TRADUCTION restitue la beaute un peu irritante d’un ouvrage considerable<\/strong>, qui prend parfois le pas sur la voix fantasque et detache de son sujet. POUR LIRE CE POST IN extenso<\/a>…<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Cela a pris 13 ans pour voir traduite en anglais cette biographie imposante<\/span><\/strong>. ARNAUD<\/strong> (Chamfort, a biography<\/em>) entraine son lecteur dans le voyage de la vie extraordinaire et compliqu\u00e9e de jean cocteau<\/strong> (1889-1963)… Son usage d’interviews personnelles et des correspondances priv\u00e9es donne une r\u00e9elle \u00a0impression D’EXHAUSTIVit\u00c9<\/strong><\/span>… SA DESCRIPTION DE LA DEPENDANCE \u00c0 L’OPIUM ET DES CURES DE DESINTOXICATION DE COCTEAU s’av\u00e8re RELLEMENT FASCINANTE<\/strong>. son livre eclaire aussi les hauts et bas d’une vie artistique, avec ses permanentes entr\u00e9es et sorties amicales…<\/strong><\/span> Verdict: un portrait exceptionnel<\/strong> d’un CAMELEON, qui interessera en tout premier lieu l’amateur d’etudes\u00a0lgtb<\/strong><\/span>, de cuLture fran\u00e7aise et de litt\u00e9rature.\u00a0\u00bb\u2014ERICA SWENSON DANOWITZ<\/strong><\/span>, DELAWARE CTY. COMMUNITY COLL. LIB., MEDIA, PA. COPYRIGHT 2016\u00a0LIBRARY JOURNAL<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0pour LIRE IN-EXTENSO CE POST (EN ANGLAIS)<\/a>….<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0COCTEAU, nous pouvons en \u00eatre s\u00fbrs aujourd’hui<\/span> gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 cette belle BIOGRAPHie de CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/span>,<\/strong> reste iNSUrpAsSABLE<\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0, <\/span>A EN CROIRE<\/span> Ricky D’AMBROSE<\/span><\/strong>, critique et cineaste<\/strong>. pour lire son article<\/strong><\/span> – IN THE WINGS OF REALITY<\/em> <\/span>– publi\u00e9 le 23\/01\/2017 dans THE NATION<\/em><\/a>…<\/strong><\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0L’extraordinaire animosit\u00e9 du groupe surrealiste<\/strong> <\/span>envers Cocteau<\/strong><\/span> est un autre sujet trait\u00e9 avec profondeur et subtilite<\/strong><\/span> par claude arnaud, ecrit vincent giroud<\/span> dans un article publi\u00e9 par the yale review<\/em><\/span> (<\/strong>Volume 105, n\u00b0 2,<\/span> Avril 2017, P. 158\u2013163<\/span>)<\/em><\/strong>. Une homophobie radicale<\/span><\/strong>, dans le cas d’Andr\u00e9 breton<\/strong>, joua un r\u00f4le au moins equivalent \u00e0 la jalousie litteraire<\/span><\/strong> et aux divergences esthetiques<\/strong>,\u00a0 Breton<\/strong><\/span> detestant musique et theatre (…) Tant de choses ont \u00e9t\u00e9 insinu\u00e9es<\/strong> au sujet de l’attitude\u00a0 de Cocteau pendant l’ occupation<\/strong><\/span> qu’il est bon d’avoir le jugement depassionn\u00e9 d’Arnaud<\/span><\/strong> \u00e0 ce sujet. Pour lire cet article in extenso (en anglais)<\/a>…<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0…La magistrale biographie<\/span> de Claude Arnaud, Jean Cocteau: A Life<\/em><\/span> (Yale), pouvait seule rendre compte de l’ampleur de l’accomplissement artistique<\/span> DE son sujet, ecrit Tim pfaff<\/span> dans un article intitule \u00ab\u00a0le r\u00eave du biographe <\/em><\/span>\u00ab\u00a0, publie par the Bay aera reporter<\/em>, vol. 47, n. 17., en date du 27 avril 2017. il n’y a pas une seul phrase ennuyeuse ou non eclairante dans ces quelques 1,000 pages<\/span>, excellemment traduites par Lauren Elkin<\/span> et Charlotte Mandel. Si le lecteur s’essouffle, ce n’est pas le fait d’une recherche exhaustive, mais de l’energie surhumaine d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e par son sujet dans un \u00e9ventail exceptionnel d’activit\u00e9s artistiques<\/span>\u00ab\u00a0. POUR LIre cet article in extenso<\/a> (en anglais)…<\/strong><\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>La traduction en anglais de ce COCTEAU<\/em><\/span> A ete en course pour le prix Jacqueline Bograd Weld de la biographie<\/span> que d\u00e9cerne chaque ann\u00e9e le PEN-CLUB Am\u00e9ricain<\/span>. Il etait le seul livre traduit dans la liste.<\/strong> Pour d\u00e9couvrir cette liste<\/a>\u2026<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>Jean Cocteau: A Life<\/span>, par Claude Arnaud, traduit du fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 l\u2019anglais<\/span> par Lauren Elkin et Charlotte Mandell<\/span>, est l\u2019un des cinq livres finalistes (dans la cat\u00e9gorie non-fiction)<\/span> du 30\u00b0 prix Annuel de traduction de la French-American Foundation<\/span>. La ceremonie de remise du prix aura lieu le 8 Juin 2017<\/span>. Le traducteur \u2013 ou les traductrices! \u2013 laur\u00e9at recevra(ont) 10,000 dollars<\/span>. DECOUVRIR LES FINALISTES<\/a>… <\/em><\/strong>JEAN COCTEAU : A life<\/em><\/span>, a remport\u00e9 ce 30\u00b0 prix annuel.<\/a>
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\u00ab JEAN Cocteau<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00bb est class\u00e9 PARMI les meilleurs livres Lgtb de non-fiction de l\u2019ann\u00e9e<\/strong>\u00a0par<\/em> the Bay aera Reporter<\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/h6>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Si l\u2019un des\u00a0g\u00e9nies cr\u00e9ateurs du\u00a020\u00b0 si\u00e8cle<\/span>\u00a0m\u00e9ritait une biographie de 1,000 pages,\u00a0c\u2019\u00e9tait bien\u00a0Jean COCTEAU<\/span>, ma\u00eetre dans toutes les arts,\u00a0source d\u2019inspiration pour tant d\u2019artistes<\/span>\u00a0qu\u2019on peut tenir pour ses sup\u00e9rieurs mais aussi, contre toute attente, un opiomane fini<\/span>,\u00a0\u00e9crit Tim PFAFF<\/span>\u00a0dans\u00a0The Bay Area Reporter<\/em>\u00a0du 12\/21\/2017<\/strong>.\u00a0L\u2019extraordinaire biographie de\u00a0<\/strong>CLAUDE ARNAUD\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(Oxford \u2013\u00a0erreur c\u2019est\u00a0Yale UP!<\/em>\u00a0), tout juste traduite du fran\u00e7ais, n\u2019est pas seulement\u00a0un livre de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence qui ne laisse rien dans l\u2019ombre<\/strong><\/span>, c\u2019est aussi, tout bonnement,\u00a0un\u00a0r\u00e9cit captivant<\/span>.<\/strong>\u00a0Aimable avertissement:\u00a0ce genre d\u2019ouvrage pourrait vous co\u00fbter du temps et de l\u2019argent<\/strong>, \u00e0 pister et r\u00e9\u00e9valuer les multiples facettes artistiques de\u00a0COCTEAU<\/strong>, qu\u2019ARNAUD d\u00e9crit avec une d\u00e9lectation remarquablement inform\u00e9e<\/strong><\/span>. \u00bb<\/h6>\n
Sous l\u2019\u00e9gide de l\u2019American Library\u00a0Association<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Choice<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0dresse chaque\"\"<\/a> ann\u00e9e<\/strong>\u00a0une liste\u00a0d\u2019ouvrages d\u2019exception<\/span> publi\u00e9s durant l\u2019ann\u00e9e \u00e9coule<\/strong>. Cette liste prestigieuse<\/strong><\/span> recense\u00a0le meilleur des 6,000 titres<\/strong>\u00a0chroniqu\u00e9s annuellement par\u00a0Choice<\/strong><\/em>.<\/h6>\n
Les \u00e9diteurs r\u00e9pondent aux crit\u00e8res suivants:<\/strong><\/span>
\n-Excellence dans l\u2019exposition et le traitement du sujet.<\/strong>
\n-Importance relative aux autres ouvrages publi\u00e9s dans le m\u00eame champs d\u2019exploration.<\/span><\/strong>
\n-Originalit\u00e9 et singularit\u00e9 du traitement.<\/strong>
\n–Int\u00e9r\u00eat pour les \u00e9tudiants concern\u00e9s.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Jean Cocteau, A Life<\/strong><\/em>, par\u00a0Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(Yale University Press), a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi comme l\u2019un de ces\u00a0Outstanding Academic Titles<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0pour 2018.<\/h6>\n
* \u00ab\u00a0PAR-DELA LE MYTHE<\/span><\/strong>, [Arnaud<\/strong>] <\/span>Refait vivre toutE l’histoire culturElLE du 20\u00b0 SIECLE.<\/strong> UNe reussite exceptionnelle.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d\u2014C. B. Kerr<\/strong>, Choice<\/em><\/h6>\n
Pour commander ce livre<\/span><\/strong>, en france, via amazon<\/a>…<\/h6>\n
*SUR INTERNET…<\/span> \"Mandy\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Le 16 f\u00e9vrier 2017, Mandy a accord\u00e9 5 \u00e9toiles<\/span> \u00e0 ce livre sur le site Goodreads:<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Cette longue, m\u00e9ticuleuse, exhaustive et scrupuleuse biographie<\/span> de COCTEAU avait \u00e9t\u00e9 qualifi\u00e9e\u00a0 de \u00ab\u00a0marquante\u00a0\u00bb et de \u00ab\u00a0monumentale<\/span>\u00ab\u00a0, ce que je le confirme absolument <\/strong>. Publi\u00e9e en France en 2003, elle vient d’\u00eatre traduite en anglais (quel effort cela a d\u00fb demander!<\/span> ) \u2013 et ces mille pages denses, parfois alambiqu\u00e9es sinon ampoul\u00e9es, sont maintenant accessible \u00e0 une plus large audience. Ce n’est pas un livre pour les craintifs, il demande de l’\u00e9nergie pour en venir \u00e0 bout, mais l’effort est tr\u00e8s largement r\u00e9compens\u00e9<\/span>.\u00a0 C’est une analyse d’envergure d’un artiste complexe qui aura connu tout le monde qui fut quelque chose<\/span> durant\u00a0sa long vie, ce qui rend fascinante cette biographie, qui ouvre sur la vie d’un nombre consid\u00e9rables d’autres artistes, de Picasso<\/span> \u00e0 Nijinsky, de Coco Chanel \u00e0 Proust\u00a0 et tant d’autres. Un livre tr\u00e8s impressionnant<\/span>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Une rencontre, en anglais, autour de la traduction anglo-saxone<\/em><\/strong> de la biographie de Claude ARNAUD :<\/strong> <\/span><\/em>Jean Cocteau, A life<\/strong>, s’est tenue \u00e0 la librairie Albertine<\/strong> de New York<\/strong>, le mardi 14 d\u00e9cembre 2016 \u00e0 19h (7 PM). \u00ab\u00a0Venez entendre Jonas MEKAS<\/strong><\/span>, John RICHARDSON<\/strong> et Edmund WHITE\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>\u00e9voquer la passionnante et monumentale<\/span> biographie de COCTEAU<\/strong> sign\u00e9e Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span> qui retrace la vie et l\u2019h\u00e9ritage de l\u2019une des figures culturelles les plus marquantes du XX\u00b0 si\u00e8cle\u00a0\u00bb.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
Pour en savoir plus<\/a>… Pour revoir cette \u00ab\u00a0conversation\u00a0\u00bb (en anglais, sans J. RICHARDSON)….<\/h5>\n
*\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0CE livre est essentiel<\/span> pour quiconque s’interesse a l’histoire sociale et litteraire fran\u00e7aise<\/span>, de l’ere proustienne aux deux guerres mondiales<\/span>, en passant par l’ere moderniste<\/strong>. Il delivre un portrait fascinant<\/strong> d’un artiste conflictuel dont la mutabilit\u00e9 pr\u00e9sente un defi majeur a tout biographe<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb ECRIT keith garebian<\/span> dans <\/strong>world literature today<\/em><\/strong>. pour lire cet article (en anglais)<\/a>…\"\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>LA LITERARY REVIEW<\/strong><\/em> <\/span>(GRANDE-BRETAGNE) CONSACRE LA COUVERTURE DE SON NUMERO 449<\/strong> (decembre 2016) A LA TRADUCTION ANGLAISE DU \u00ab\u00a0COCTEAU\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> DE CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/strong>.<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0La biographie d\u2019ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span> est tr\u00e8s longue (un bon millier de pages, en comprenant l\u2019index), mais\"\"<\/a> elle l\u2019est rarement\u00a0 inutilement, \u00e9crit KEVIN JACKSON<\/strong><\/span> dans cet article. Son style \u2013 transpos\u00e9 en anglais avec l\u2019aide, note-t-il, de Donna TARTT<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 est aussi lyrique qu\u2019affranchi des r\u00e8gles de grammaire<\/strong>. Il s\u2019autorise des moments d\u2019exc\u00e8s sp\u00e9culatifs qui frapperont le lecteur, comme ce:\u00a0 \u00ab\u00a0Il \u00e9tait si joyeux certains jours qu\u2019il ressemblait \u00e0 un foetus barbouillant les murs de son placenta\u00a0\u00bb. Hors mesure, sans aucun doute, mais parfaitement adapt\u00e9 \u00e0 son\u00a0 flamboyant sujet.<\/strong><\/span> Jean-Luc GODARD<\/strong> \u00e9crivit un article c\u00e9l\u00e9brant COCTEAU<\/strong><\/span> o\u00f9 il demandait, de fa\u00e7on r\u00e9currente: \u00a0\u00bb Quand avez-vous vu pour la derni\u00e8re fois ORPHEE<\/strong><\/em>? \u00a0\u00bb Le prodige du livre d\u2019ARNAUD<\/strong> est qu\u2019il nous donne non seulement l\u2019envie de revoir ce film, mais d\u2019explorer,\u00a0dans son int\u00e9gralit\u00e9,<\/strong> l\u2019univers \u00e0 la fois fascinant et d\u00e9licat de COCTEAU (…)<\/span> Avons-nous eu tort de le n\u00e9gliger? Certainement. Le portrait \u00e0 la fois \u00e9loquent et amoureux qu’ARNAUD fait de son h\u00e9ros devrait persuader jusqu’au plus enrag\u00e9 des Cocteauphobes qu’on se prive par l\u00e0 d’un grand plaisir.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
POUR LIRE CET ARTICLE<\/strong> IN EXTENSO<\/a> (en anglais)\u2026<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>*\u00a0\u00bbTOUTE BIOGRAPHIE EST A LA FOIS UN HOMMAGE ET UNE DISSECTION, ET TOUS LES BIOGRAPHES SONT JALOUX DE LEUR SUJET, ECRIT DUNCAN FALLOWELL DANS<\/span> THE SPECTACTOR, LE 7 JANVIER 2017<\/span>.<\/span> LA PLUPART GARDENT LEUR CALME, MAIS CERTAINS \u00ab\u00a0L’AIMENT CHAUD\u00a0\u00bb,<\/span> AU POINT D’AVOIR ENGENDRE UNE CATEGORIE A-PART O\u00d9 LA JALOUSIE TOURNE AU MEURTRE ET A LA NECROMANCIE<\/span> : CELUI QU’ILS EMBRASSENT EST LENTEMENT ASPHYXIE, AVANT QU’ILS N’ INSUFFLENT LEUR AIR DANS SES<\/em> POUMONS : AINSI FIRENT JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AVEC JEAN GENET,<\/span> BRIGID BROPHY AVEC RONALD FIRBANK ET ROGER LEWIS AVEC ANTHONY BURGESS..<\/span>.<\/h5>\n
LE COCTEAU DE<\/span> CLAUDE ARNAUD<\/span> EN EST UN NOUVEL EXEMPLE.<\/span> SON APPROCHE EST INTENSEMENT ROMANTIQUE, TOUS LES PROTAGONISTES APPARAISSENT SOUS DES COULEURS ECLATANTES.<\/span> ARNAUD CONNA\u00ceT PARFAITEMENT SON AFFAIRE.<\/span> L’ADRESSE AVEC LAQUELLE IL CITE SES SOURCES ECRITES<\/span> VIENT RENFORCER L’ILLUSION, TELLES CES EPINGLES QUI FONT TENIR ENSEMBLE LES PIECES D’UN COSTUME EN COURS D’ELABORATION. LE RESULTAT EST UNE EPOUSTOUFLANTE<\/span> EXCURSION A TRAVERS LES NOMBREUX MILIEUX QUE COCTEAU TRAVERSA<\/span>, DE SES DEBUTS COMME POETE ADOLESCENT DANS LE PARIS PROUSTIEN<\/span> A LA GRANDE GUERRE, ET DU MOUVEMENT MODERNE DES ANNES 20 AUX COTES DE DIAGHILEV<\/span>, SATIE, STRAVINSKY<\/span> ET PICASSO, AUX AMBIGUITES MACABRES DES ANNEES 30 ET AU PARIS OCCUPE PAR LES NAZIS<\/span>, SANS OUBLIER LES FILMS REALISES<\/span> DURANT L’APRES-GUERRE ET LA RENOMMEE INTERNATIONALE. LA PARADE DES AMANTS ET DES PROTECTRICES EST SPECTACULAIRE,<\/span> ET LA DEPENDANCE A L’OPIUM EST AMPLIFIEE PAR L’ESPECE DE R\u00caVERIE QUE SUSCITE LE RECIT\u00a0\u00bb<\/span>… LIRE CET ARTICLE IN EXTENSO<\/a>…<\/h5>\n
*\u00a0\u00bbLa biographie de Claude ARNAUD<\/span> est pleine de sc\u00e8nes o\u00f9 les histoires\"\"<\/a> individuelles croisent l<\/span>‘histoire collective<\/span>: sa description du Paris occup\u00e9, par exemple, restitue l’atmosph\u00e8re <\/span><\/strong>oppressante<\/span> d’une ville o\u00f9 les horloges <\/span>avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 mises \u00e0 l’heure allemande<\/span>. Une biographie s’appuye sur des faits, mais un des plaisirs du genre est le contraste palpable entre le monde dans lequel le sujet vit,<\/span> et le monde tel qu’il est per\u00e7u par le sujet\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e9crit Anne STILLMAN<\/span> dans un article intitul\u00e9 Cocteaux<\/span>, <\/em>publi\u00e9 par la London Review of Books<\/span> (vol. 39 N\u00b014<\/span>, 13 juillet 2017) Pour lire cet article<\/a>… <\/strong><\/h5>\n
*POUR LE RESTE, LES CRITIQUES ONT ETE <\/span><\/strong>PARFOIS NEGATIVES<\/span>,\u00a0 sinon AGRESSIVES : COCTEAU EST MAL CONNU DANS LE ROYAUME-UNI.<\/span> Pour lire l’article publi\u00e9 par MICHAEL PRODGER<\/span> DANS \u00ab\u00a0THE TIMES\u00a0\u00bb, LE 3 DECEMBRE 2016<\/a>… <\/strong><\/h5>\n

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\"\"<\/a>LIRE L’ARTICLE DE JAMES CAMPBELL <\/span>dans le \u00ab\u00a0THE WALL STREET JOURNAL\u00a0\u00bb (Edition europ\u00e9enne), le 23 D\u00e9cembre 2016: \u00a0\u00bb THE CLOWN PRINCE OF MODERNISM\u00a0\u00bb.<\/a>.. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
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(LA TRADUCTION EN FRAN\u00c7AIS des articles suivAnts se situe dans la seconde moiti\u00e9 de cette page) *THE TRANSLATION of Claude ARNAUD’s Jean COCTEAU, BY\u00a0LAUREN ELKIN and\u00a0\u00a0CHARLOTTE MANDELL,\u00a0has been published at\u00a0YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, in the US, on September 27 2016, as : Jean COCTEAU, a life\u00a0( 40.00$). PUBLICATION DATE\u00a0IN THE UK: 21 NOVEMBER 2016 (\u00a330.00)\u00a0 *BROWSE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6787","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","count-0","even alt","author-claude-arnaud","last"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16552,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6787\/revisions\/16552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}