Publication details
LE MIROIR COMME L ENTREE DANS L UNIVERS DU REVE DE JEAN COCTEAU
| Title in English | MIRROR AS A GATEWAY INTO JEAN COCTEAU DREAMSCAPES |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Opera romanica 10 |
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| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | the Orpheus myth mirror dream |
| Description | MIRROR AS A GATEWAY INTO JEAN COCTEAU DREAMSCAPES (based on three reiterations of the Orpheus myth) Jean Cocteau s oeuvre includes three works of art which are deemed essential for the understanding of his poetics: the 1926 staged drama Orpheus, the 1949 motion picture Orpheus and the 1960 film Testament of Orpheus. Each of the three works transposes important events in the poet s life, his artistic creed and poetic imagination into an idiosyncratic and enigmatic reality hidden behind the mirror. Both the motifs involved and the central orphic myth follow a remarkable development. |