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Letter to the Americans

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English

By (author): Jean Cocteau

Translated by: Alex Wermer-Colan

In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in Americas promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confrontits hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirationsin order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 80g
  • Dimensions: 114 x 185mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Aug 2022
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811231596

About Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau (18891963) was a French writer poet designer draftsman sculptor filmmaker and boxing manager. His list of friendsincluding New Directions founder James Laughlinwould read like a catalog of the stars of the twentieth-century avant-garde. He died of a heart attack after being informed of the death of his friend the singer Edith Piaf. Alex Wermer-Colan is a writer editor dramaturg and translator living in Philadelphia. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Harpers New Criterion Ill Will LEsprit Createur PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art Twentieth Century Literature The Yearbook of Comparative Literature American Book Review Bloomsbury Press Indiana University Press and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.  

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