Le Grand Écart de Jean Cocteau, «esa mentira que dice la verdad»

Abstract

Jean Cocteau, although he said the personalresonances of the history of the LeGrand Écart, he has not chosen an autobiographicalwriting, but impersonally. Hewants to deny any correspondence withreality, causing a feeling of artifice. Nevertheless,the narrative features betray hispersonal truth. The narratological distancealso allows it to be multi-fold, sometimesby throwing in the character sometimes inthe narrator, and reveal the contradictionsof his nature. On the other hand, the narratorreveals his knowledge of another kind oftruth, metaphysics, concerning the mysteryof the hereafter, temporality, etc.

Keywords

• Cocteau
• Le Grand Écart
• narratology
• pragmatic
• theme