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Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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05 Jul 1889
11 Oct 1963
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

Biography

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associat...

Also Known As

장 콕토, Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

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