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Les Enfants Terribles

Jean Cocteau

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1929
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 140

A brother and sister turn their shared bedroom into a private, ruthless game, growing so fused to each other that neither can bear the outside loves that threaten to end it, and they die together rather than let it break.

A blow struck him full in the chest. A dark blow. A blow like a marble fist. A blow like a statue's fist.
Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau

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