{"id":6694,"date":"2016-07-01T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2019-12-15T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T16:52:27","slug":"le-cocteau-de-claude-arnaud-aux-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/archives\/6694","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0JEAN COCTEAU, A LIFE\u00a0\u00bb, BY CLAUDE ARNAUD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Translated by Lauren ELKIN <\/strong>and Charlotte Mandel, Claude ARNAUD<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>‘s biography, Jean Cocteau, A Life<\/strong><\/em>, is to be published\u00a0 by Yale University press<\/span><\/strong>, on the 27th of september 2016, in the US<\/strong>, and on november, the 21th, in the UK<\/strong>.<\/span> Hardcover<\/span>, 40$<\/strong>, 30\u00a3,\u00a0<\/span>1024 pages<\/span><\/span><\/strong>,\u00a06 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 26 b\/w illus. ISBN: 9780300170573.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Claude Arnaud<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is a writer and recipient of the 2006 Prix Femina Essai. Author of Chamfort, A biography<\/strong><\/em><\/span> (The University of Chicago press), he lives in Paris, France.\u00a0Lauren Elkin<\/strong>\u00a0is a lecturer in English and comparative literature at the American University of Paris.\u00a0Charlotte Mandell<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning translator of more than thirty books.\u00a0\u00bb
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Discover the cover, the backcover and the jacket…<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean COCTEAU<\/span><\/strong> has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none<\/strong>. In this landmark biography<\/strong><\/span>, Claude ARNAUD<\/strong> thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates COCTEAU<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s \u201cfragile genius\u2014a combination almost unlivable in art\u201d but in his case so fertile.<\/p>\n

ARNAUD<\/strong> narrates the life of this legendary French novelist, poet, playwright, director, filmmaker, and designer who, as a young man, pretended to be a sort of a god<\/strong><\/span>, but who died as a humble and exhausted craftsman. His moving and compassionate account<\/strong> examines the nature of COCTEAU<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s chameleon-like genius, his romantic attachments, his controversial politics, and his intimate involvement with many of the century\u2019s leading artistic lights, including PICASSO<\/strong>, PROUST<\/strong><\/span>, HEMINGWAY<\/strong>, STRAVINSKY<\/span>, and Tennessee WILLIAMS<\/strong>. Already published to great critical acclaim in France, ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s penetrating and deeply researched work reveals a uniquely gifted artist while offering a magnificent cultural history of the twentieth century.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Blurbs:<\/p>\n

\u201cJean COCTEAU<\/strong><\/span> was the artistic ringmaster of 20th century Paris. Claude ARNAUD<\/strong> has written the definitive\u2014and fascinating\u2014life of this artist and impresario<\/strong><\/span>, and along the way has clarified mysteries about his sexuality and his collaboration with the Nazis.\u201d\u2014Edmund WHITE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0ARNAUD\u2019s incisive and immensely readable biography<\/strong> <\/span>of the brilliantly witty albeit flawed COCTEAU<\/strong> is a triumph. Thank God this essential book has finally been translated.<\/strong> Read it and wallow in twentieth-century art and letters.\u00a0\u00bb\u2014John RICHARDSON<\/strong><\/span>, author of\u00a0A Life of Picasso<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0vols. I\u2013III<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cClaude ARNAUD<\/strong>\u2019s cornucopian biography give us a marvelous, if in some ways consolingly familiar, portrait of the upper echelons of Parisian aristo artistic circles<\/strong> <\/span>. . . Simply everybody is here: from MISTINGUETT<\/strong> to Marcel PROUST<\/strong><\/span>, Robert de MONTESQUIOU<\/strong> to Anna de NOAILLES<\/strong><\/span>, Misia SERT<\/strong> to Natalie BARNEY<\/strong><\/span>, we wander through an enchanted period when talent seemed to earn immediate rewards, spiced by an undercurrent of discreet homosexuality. . . . Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s work<\/strong><\/span> is welcome for reminding us just how remarkable its subject was<\/strong><\/span>. It is also welcome for its argument that the twentieth century has left few artistic survivors<\/strong>.\u201d\u2014Lachlan MACKINNON<\/strong><\/span>, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Le 27 septembre 2016, Yale University press<\/strong> publie aux USA<\/strong><\/span> (et le 21 novembre en GRANDE-BRETAGNE<\/strong><\/span>) 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> et Charlotte Mandell,<\/strong><\/span> l\u00e9g\u00e8rement adapt\u00e9e par l’auteur<\/strong>. Lauren Elkin<\/strong> est ma\u00eetre de conf\u00e9rence en anglais et en\u00a0 litt\u00e9rature compar\u00e9e <\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00e0 l’ American University de Paris. R\u00e9guli\u00e8rement prim\u00e9e, Charlotte Mandell<\/span><\/strong> est la traductrice de plus de\u00a0 trente ouvrages, romans ou essais.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Dans l’argumentaire:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJean COCTEAU<\/strong> <\/span>\u00e9tait\u00a0 le Monsieur Loyal du XX\u00b0 si\u00e8cle<\/strong> <\/span>\u00e0 Paris. Claude ARNAUD a \u00e9crit la vie d\u00e9finitive<\/span> – et fascinante – de ce cr\u00e9ateur et impresario<\/span>, en \u00e9clairant tous les recoins de sa sexualit\u00e9, mais aussi de sa collaboration avec les nazis<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb Edmund WHITE.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0<\/span>La biographie p\u00e9n\u00e9trante et immens\u00e9ment lisible d’ARNAUD, d\u00e9di\u00e9e au brillant quoi qu’imparfait COCTEAU<\/span>, a quelque chose de triomphal.\u00a0<\/strong> Dieu merci, ce livre d\u00e9cisif est enfin traduit!<\/strong> Le lire, c’est s’immerger dans les arts et les lettres du XX\u00b0 si\u00e8cle<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0\u00bb\u2014John RICHARDSON<\/strong><\/em>, biographe de PICASSO.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cL’in\u00e9puisable biographie de Claude ARNAUD<\/span> fait le tableau \u00e9blouissant, mais aussi\u00a0 agr\u00e9ablement familier, des tout premiers cercles artistiques et artistocratiques parisiens<\/span><\/strong>. . . C’est simple, tout le monde est l\u00e0, 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>, on d\u00e9couvre une \u00e9poque enchant\u00e9e<\/strong> o\u00f9 le talent semble aussit\u00f4t r\u00e9compens\u00e9, ici relev\u00e9e du piquant d’une discr\u00e8te homosexualit\u00e9.\u00a0 Le livre de Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span> vient \u00e0 point nomm\u00e9 rappeler combien COCTEAU \u00e9tait un homme d’exception, l’un des survivants artistiques du\u00a0XX\u00b0 si\u00e8cle<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201d\u2014Lachlan MACKINNON<\/strong><\/em>, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

COMMANDER CE LIVRE\u00a0AUX USA<\/a>\u2026\u00a0EN GRANDE-BRETAGNE<\/a>\u2026 A HONG KONG.<\/a>..<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Translated by Lauren ELKIN and Charlotte Mandel, Claude ARNAUD‘s biography, Jean Cocteau, A Life, is to be published\u00a0 by Yale University press, on the 27th of september 2016, in the US, and on november, the 21th, in the UK. Hardcover, 40$, 30\u00a3,\u00a01024 pages,\u00a06 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 26 b\/w illus. ISBN: 9780300170573. \u00ab\u00a0Claude Arnaud\u00a0is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenements","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\/posts\/6694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10235,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions\/10235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}