Letter to the Americans

In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America's promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront-its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations-in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.

ISBN:	9780811231596
Publisher:	New Directions
Imprint:	New Directions Books
Published date:	21 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	973
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	64
Weight:	82g
Height:	184mm
Width:	113mm
Spine width:	13mm

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