Jean COCTEAU.

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Jean COCTEAU.
The Potomak 1913-1914, preceded by a prospectus 1916 and followed by the Eugenes of the 1915 war. Paris, Literary Society of France, 1919. In-12, paperback, printed cover of old pink paper. Original edition: it is illustrated with 95 compositions by Jean Cocteau reproduced full-page, except for one in cul-de-lampe. One of the 62 copies on laid paper from Holland, only deluxe edition. One of the 50 copies enriched with an original ink drawing by Jean Cocteau (#24). Dedicated to Igor Stravinsky, with whom Jean Cocteau had finished writing the book in 1913, Le Potomak is the "book of the moult", translating the metamorphosis of the frivolous prince. Its publication had to be delayed by the war and it remained at the stage of printing proofs until 1919. One third of the volume is devoted to the Album of the Eugenes, the science fiction comic strip that heralds the Shadoks and surrealist automatic drawing before its time. "Escorted by aphorisms, poems, disguised memories, pastiches, the Eugenes insinuate themselves into the fatrasie that takes the name of "Potomak", the creature from the depths that criss-crosses this crisis book. The Potomak, a moral manual written to the sound of Stravinsky, bets on the harmonics that will result from the cacophony" (Pierre Bergé, Album Cocteau, 2006, pp. 71-73). Perfect copy.
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