Jean Cocteau

roman

Les enfants terribles

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.

Les Enfants Terribles

I’ll be totally honest - I still don’t know how to feel about this book, but please do not regard this as an objectively bad thing. This novel has been quite the whirlwind, and has taken me on a journey that I am sure of neither the start nor finish. Cocteau’s writing style feels jumpy and inconsistent to me at times. The most thoughtful description of a character will be given and I will be absolutely hooked, but then it will change and carry on in a way that feels wishy-washy to me. The plot is absolutely bonkers and the way it is conveyed? Even more so. But the ending, in my opinion, is worth every last bit. Should you choose to read this novel front to back, you will be taken through the lives of some extraordinary characters who exist in a nonsensical place. To know where they end up after being sucked into their madness is both unsettling and rewarding.

Lily Cooper

"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-

Infamous Millimetre

Hannah Pilkington

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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