Les Enfants terribles

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Les Enfants terribles is a 1929 novel by French writer Jean Cocteau that portrays the intense, destructive relationship between a brother and sister isolated in their own fantastical world.

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instanceOf novel
adaptedAs Les Enfants terribles (1950 film)
Les Enfants terribles (opera)
alsoKnownAs The Holy Terrors
author Jean Cocteau
countryOfOrigin France
filmAdaptationDirector Jean-Pierre Melville
filmAdaptationScreenwriter Jean Cocteau
genre drama
novel
psychological fiction
hasTranslation English
literaryMovement Surrealism
mainCharacter Elisabeth
Paul
narrativeFocus intense sibling relationship
notableFor blend of realism and fantasy
portrayal of destructive sibling bond
operaComposer Philip Glass
operaPremiereYear 1996
originalLanguage French
partOf Jean Cocteau bibliography
publicationDate 1929
setting Paris
theme fantasy versus reality
incestuous desire
isolation
obsession
self-destruction
timePeriodOfStory interwar period

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Jean Cocteau notableWork Les Enfants terribles
Jean-Pierre Melville notableWork Les Enfants terribles
Jean-Pierre Melville directed Les Enfants terribles
Jean Marais notableWork Les Parents terribles (Cocteau collaboration)
linked to: Les Enfants terribles
Jean Cocteau notableWork Les Enfants terribles
subject linked to: Cocteau
Les Enfants terribles adaptedAs Les Enfants terribles (1950 film)
linked to: Les Enfants terribles
Nicole Berger notableWork Les Enfants terribles