Hommage à Monsieur Jean

Kenner

Cocteau was the Inventor. No one else in our time of great executors invented so much. Against our art of the lap dissolve and the transnosed kev. restating in a new idiom (with vandals at the gates) old mastery that wants conserving, stood his startling fiats of the imagination: the m o torcycling Eumenides, the Oracle in numbers, the fell surgeon Death in gown and rubber gloves.