Letter to the Americans (eBook)

Jean Cocteau (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
64 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-3160-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potentialand issuesIn 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2022
• Übersetzer: Alex Wermer-Colan
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
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• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
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• Schlagworte: American • americans • French Classics • French Literature • Letters • midcentury french literature
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-3160-7 / 0811231607
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-3160-2 / 9780811231602