“I am neither cheerful nor sad. But I can be completely the one or completely the other to excess. In conversation, if I am in good form, I forget the sorrows behind me, a pain I am suffering from, forget myself, so greatly do words intoxicate me and sweep ideas along with them.”
In this important autobiographical work, Cocteau reveals his interior struggles with his writing, with his film and theater work, and, above all, with his personal relationships.
Author: Jean Cocteau
Title: The Difficulty of Being
Edition: First American Edition, first printing
Published: New York: Coward-McCann, 1967
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 158p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, light chipping, and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine very clean with mild edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding tight and square. Pages toned.
Comments: Handsome copy
