Jacques Forestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a 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 bohemian life 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.
Le Grand Écart
Publication Date: February 01, 1925
Publisher: G P Putnam's
Pages: 153
Format: Hardcover
Authors: Jean Cocteau, Dorothy Williams
