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Jean COCTEAU

Lettre à Jacques Maritain

Stock, Paris 1926, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of the copies of the Press. Touching and exceptional autograph dedication signed by the author to his mother: "A mom, this test of love and Jean improvement.." Restored in the foot, back and slightly flat and marginally imaged as generally back. Eugenie Cocteau, sacred mother by her son, had an influence deeply on the poet's life as in his work, marked by the ubiquity of Oedipal figure. In his biography, Claude Arnaud describes this "filial momentum coupled with an almost loving attention (...)" it is only my love for you to cling to something real, the rest seems a bad dream. " [After the suicide of his father, and his mother Cocteau] sink into an emotional spiral from which they emerge as an additional shared love. Is it "more gentle and cruel household, household more proud of yourself, this couple a son and a young mother?" asked Cocteau in "The Infernal Machine"; there was little in so accomplice, nor so stuffy. "(C. Arnaud, p.28-29). He wrote more than 900 letters passionate (sometimes daily) to his "dear one" loyal confidante but disturbed by the life and "dissolute" manners of the son she "feared for not quite finished" (ibid.). On the death of Radiguet in 1924, Cocteau into a deep depression that led him, through opium, to the hospital with dismay as his helpless mother. His mystical revelation through Maritain evidenced this "Letter" was apologetic for both man and resurrection, for the son, one of the few moments of real communion with the mother, a devout Catholic who remain the love of his life.

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