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.
| ISBN: | 9780720611731 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2003 |
| Author: | Jean Cocteau |
| Publisher: | Peter Owen Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 163 pages |
| Series: | Peter Owen Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |