Jacques Forestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to beauty in both sexes. Leaving his provincial family he comes to Paris to study for his degree. Indulging in a life of dissipation with a group of students and their mistresses, he falls in love with Germaine, a chorus girl kept by a rich banker. The affair, doomed from the start, forces Jacques to come to terms not so much with society as he finds it but with himself.
- ISBN13 9780720611731
- Publish Date 1 February 2003 (first published July 1975)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Owen Publishers
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 164
- Language English