
Wallace Fowlie
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LOCATION: Chapel Hill, NC, United States
James B. Duke Professor of French Literature, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Author of Jean Cocteau; Stendahl; A Guide to Contemporary French Literature; Age of Surrealism.
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Jean Cocteau was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter. Some of his most important works include the poem L’Ange Heurtebise (1925; “The Angel Heurtebise”); the play Orphée (1926; Orpheus); the novels Les Enfants terribles (1929; “The Incorrigible Children”; Eng.…
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