JEAN COCTEAU’S LETTER TO THE AMERICANS: AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE OTHER
JEAN COCTEAU’S LETTER TO THE AMERICANS: AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE OTHER

Summary/Abstract: Letter to the Americans is a short piece of writing in which Cocteau narrates his short encounter with the Americans and especially with certain aspects of their culture and civilization. He chooses to present America by means of a fictional letter in which he writes down what he can notice while being in New York. Discovering the Other cannot be done without reference to his own culture, the French one. He implicitly or explicitly compares and/or contrasts two different cultures belonging to two different worlds: a new one and an old one. Cocteau is amazed by a number of aspects that he warmly, but still objectively describes.

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