The Miscreant: With Drawings by John Cocteau

By Jean Cocteau

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0720611733
• ISBN13: 9780720611731
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.3"