{"id":7306,"date":"2017-01-30T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2025-01-25T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T14:07:27","slug":"jean-cocteau-a-life-in-the-spectator-cocteau-vu-par-the-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/archives\/7306","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0Jean COCTEAU, A LIFE\u00a0\u00bb, in The SPECTATOR\/ \u00ab\u00a0COCTEAU\u00a0\u00bb vu par The SPECTATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0All biography is both an act of homage and a labour of dissection,and all biographers are jealous\"\"<\/span><\/a> of their subjects<\/strong><\/span>, Duncan FALLOWELL\u00a0writes<\/strong> in The Spectator<\/strong><\/em><\/span> (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<\/strong><\/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, as are Brigid Brophy\u2019s on Ronald Firbank and Roger Lewis\u2019s on Anthony Burgess<\/span>. Claude Arnaud\u2019s on Jean Cocteau is yet another.<\/strong> Its approach is intensely romantic. Everyone is heaving in lurid colours.<\/strong> <\/span>Arnaud certainly knows his material; and that he carefully references printed sources along the way is adroit<\/strong><\/span>, 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:<\/strong> <\/span>from his teenage beginnings as a poet in Proustian Paris; through the Great War and the Modern movement of the 1920s in collaboration with Diaghilev<\/strong><\/span>, Satie<\/span>, Stravinsky<\/strong><\/span> and Picasso<\/span>; followed by the macabre uncertainties of the 1930s and later in Nazi-occupied Paris; and on to postwar film making and international celebrity. 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<\/strong><\/span>. READ THIS REVIEW<\/a>\u2026 READ MORE<\/a>…\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

GET THE BOOK\u00a0IN THE US<\/a>\u2026OR VIA\u00a0INDIE BOUND<\/a>\u2026 IN\u00a0CANADA<\/a>\u2026\u00a0IN THE UK<\/a>\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

*\"\"<\/a> \u00ab\u00a0TOUTE BIOGRAPHIE EST A LA FOIS UN HOMMAGE ET UNE DISSECTION<\/span>, ET TOUS LES BIOGRAPHES SONT JALOUX DE LEUR SUJET<\/strong>, ECRIT DUNCAN FALLOWELL<\/span><\/strong> DANS THE SPECTACTOR,<\/strong><\/em> LE 7 JANVIER 2017. LA PLUPART GARDENT LEUR CALME, MAIS CERTAINS S’ENFLAMMENT,<\/span><\/strong> AU POINT D\u2019ENGENDRER UNE CATEGORIE A-PART O\u00d9 LA JALOUSIE TOURNE AU MEURTRE ET A LA NECROMANCIE<\/strong><\/span> : L’AUTEUR QU\u2019ILS EMBRASSENT EST LENTEMENT ASPHYXIE, AVANT QU\u2019ILS N\u2019 INSUFFLENT LEUR AIR DANS SES<\/em> POUMONS<\/strong><\/span> : AINSI FIRENT JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AVEC JEAN GENET<\/span>, BRIGID BROPHY AVEC RONALD FIRBANK<\/span> ET ROGER LEWIS AVEC ANTHONY BURGESS<\/span>…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

LE COCTEAU<\/em> <\/span>DE CLAUDE ARNAUD EN EST UN NOUVEL EXEMPLE.<\/strong> SON APPROCHE EST INTENSEMENT ROMANTIQUE, TOUS LES PROTAGONISTES Y APPARAISSENT SOUS DES COULEURS ECLATANTES.<\/strong> <\/span>ARNAUD CONNA\u00ceT PARFAITEMENT SON AFFAIRE. L\u2019ADRESSE AVEC LAQUELLE IL CITE SES SOURCES ECRITES VIENT RENFORCER L\u2019ILLUSION<\/strong>, TELLES CES EPINGLES QUI FONT TENIR ENSEMBLE LES PIECES D\u2019UN COSTUME EN COURS D\u2019ELABORATION. LE RESULTAT EST UNE EPOUSTOUFFLANTE EXCURSION A TRAVERS LES NOMBREUX MILIEUX QUE COCTEAU TRAVERSA<\/strong><\/span>, DE SES DEBUTS COMME POETE ADOLESCENT<\/strong> DANS LE PARIS PROUSTIEN<\/strong><\/span> A LA GRANDE GUERRE, ET DU MOUVEMENT MODERNE DES ANNEES 20<\/strong> AUX COTES DE DIAGHILEV<\/span><\/strong>, SATIE<\/strong>, STRAVINSKY<\/strong><\/span> ET PICASSO<\/strong>, AUX AMBIGUITES MACABRES DES ANNEES 30<\/span> <\/strong>ET AU PARIS OCCUPE PAR LES NAZIS<\/strong>, SANS OUBLIER LES FILMS REALISES DURANT L\u2019APRES-GUERRE ET LA RENOMMEE INTERNATIONALE<\/strong>. LA PARADE DES AMANTS ET DES PROTECTRICES EST SPECTACULAIRE, ET LA DEPENDANCE A L\u2019OPIUM EST AMPLIFIEE PAR LES CASCADES DE R\u00caVERIES QUE SUSCITE LE RECIT<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00bb\u2026 POUR EN SAVOIR PLUS<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00ab\u00a0All biography is both an act of homage and a labour of dissection,and all biographers are jealous of their subjects, Duncan FALLOWELL\u00a0writes 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: the one they hug is asphyxiated […]<\/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-7306","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\/7306","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=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16542,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/16542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}