“Les Enfants Terribles” is one of Cocteau’s key and most complex works, which literary scholars still argue about to this day. 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 “Children’s world”, existing according to its own laws and rituals. The heroes of the novel - Paul and Elizabeth - have lived since childhood 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 collide with the real world... The collection also includes the famous play “The Infernal Machine.”