This article, dedicated to the first Jean Cocteau, is part of the groundwork for calling into question Coctalian self-mythography, which always tends to present Le Potomak as a work of rupture. More than an inaugural and life-saving metamorphosis, it is a slow maturation that I will attempt to reveal here by focusing in particular on the symbolo-decadent heritage and its evolution in the work of a young poet at the time of La Lampe d’Aladin, Le Prince frivole, and La Danse de Sophocle.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques