Too young to fight, he assumes for himself a noble ancestry and a few extra years and becomes a soldier. In this guise he meets the society star Princess de Bormes and her impressionable daughter Henriette. While the princess pursues charity work with the wounded, Henriette falls in love with Guillaume. However, Guillaume, resplendent in army uniform and issued with a shiny revolver, is lost like a child in a fantasy land of their own creation. At the novel's denouement he clings to his imposture but in mind, if not body, he has grasped the real meaning of war. Jean Cocteau's visionary novel is a 'hymn to the cult of youth' in which the First World War battlefields become an exaggerated spectacle where fiction and reality are inseparable.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN-13
9780720612523
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96560399
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thomas the Impostor
Author
Jean Cocteau
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
World War I, Books
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jean Cocteau
Series Title
Peter Owen Modern Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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