Ужасные дети. Адская машина. Дневник незнакомца

'Uzhasnye deti' - odno iz kli͡uchevykh i naibolee slozhnykh proizvedeniĭ Kokto, o kotorykh po seĭ denʹ spori͡at literaturovedy. Mnogosloĭnai͡a i mnogourovnevai͡a istorii͡a i͡unykh brata i sestry, otvergnuvshikh 'vneshniĭ' mir i sozdavshikh dli͡a sebi͡a strannyĭ, zhestokiĭ i prekrasnyĭ 'mir Detskoĭ', sushchestvui͡ushchiĭ po sobstvennym zakonam i ritualam. Geroi romana - Polʹ i Ėlizabet - s detstva zhivut po pravilam sobstvennoĭ igry, ot kotoroĭ nichto ne mozhet ikh otvlechʹ. I vzroslei͡a, oni prodolzhai͡ut zhitʹ v svoem mire, kotoryĭ obrechen na stolknovenie s mirom realʹnym…Takzhe v sbornik vkhodit znamenitai͡a pʹesa 'Adskai͡a mashina' i ėsse 'Dnevnik neznakomt͡sa', v kotorykh, govori͡a o vdokhnovenii, pami͡ati, vremeni, druzhbe, avtor otkryvaet nam svoe istinnoe lit͡so.

"Terrible Children" is one of the key and most complex works of Cocteau, which is still debated by literary critics. A multi-layered and multi-level story of a young brother and sister who rejected the 'outside' world and created for themselves a strange, cruel and beautiful 'world of the Nursery', existing according to their own laws and rituals. The characters of the novel – Paul and Elizabeth-since childhood live by the rules of their own game, from which nothing can distract them. And growing up, they continue to live in their own world, which is doomed to clash with the real world…The collection also includes the famous play "Hell Machine" and the essay "Diary of a Stranger", in which, speaking about inspiration, memory, time, friendship, the author reveals his true face to us.