Name: Les enfants terribles
Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)

Jean Cocteau

roman

Les enfants terribles

Les Enfants terribles

Camille

"Terrors they are, these lads of the Lyc-e Condorcet, and no mistake - the terrors of the Fifth-where the tenebrous instincts of childhood still predominate-" At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game. Elisabeth might be the dutiful daughter tending their sick, prematurely aged mother; Paul might be under the spell of his fellow student Dargelos, and then of a hapless friend of his sister's - but unfortunately what the rules of the Game prescribe is that two children must die-

Les Enfants Terribles

Infamous Millimetre

A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood. At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game -- but unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that two children must die.

Hannah Pilkington

Patrycja

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

An easy reader with vocabulary words in footnotes, labelled illustrations, and questions at the end of each chapter.

Les enfants terribles roman

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