About the author

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: , US: , French: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. Cocteau is best known for his novels Le Grand Écart (1923), Le Livre Blanc (1928), and Les Enfants Terribles (1929); the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), from his own eponymous piéce, Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1949), and Testament of Orpheus (1960), which alongside Blood of a Poet and Orpheus constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie.

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Under foregivende

Under foregivende er en roman om at lyve og bedrage i den bedste mening og om det komplicerede forhold mellem virkelighed og blændværk, identitet og skæbne. Under første verdenskrig bliver den purunge Guillaume Thomas taget for en højtstående generals nevø, og han ser ingen grund til at rette misforståelsen, som bringer ham frem i geledderne til selve krigens hjerte. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) udgav romanen i 1923 under titlen Thomas l'imposteur.
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Edition1
Printed pages174
Publish date11 Oct 2013
Published byGyldendal
Languagedan
ISBN print9788702143782
ISBN epub9788702143799