The three-volume works of Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) will very fully present to our reader the literary work of this truly unique figure of Western European art of the 20th century. poet and prose writer, playwright and screenwriter, critic and art theorist, a variety of painter, graphic artist, scenographer, cartoonist, creator of amazing frescoes, who seemed to have everything on his shoulder This revived gifted man became for many years a symbol of the modern avant-garde. Drawing on the plan of his Collected Works, Jean Cocteau, a great avant-garde artist and the provost of new ways in the art of the 20th century, outlined the variety of types of creativity to which he paid tribute, with the same word “poetry”. "Poetry of the novel", "Poetry of the cinema", "Poetry of the theater" … The key word, "poetry", also unites three diverse dramatic works included in the second volume and representing such an unusual phenomenon as the Jean Cocteau Theater, which for thirty years (from the 20s to the 50s) excited and stunned Paris and theatrical Europe. Turning to Classical Antique Mythology ("Hell's Machine"), often used in literature medieval legends and images of the so-called "Arthur cycle" ("Knights of the Round Table") and Finally, completely unexpectedly - to the methods of the popular and beloved by the public "bulvar theater" ("Two-headed eagle") Cocteau , as if by the touch of a magic wand , He can draw poetry from it all. CM New lighting of the usual , Turning it into Beauty. Turning to old myths and legends, dressing up characters in old clothes, placing them in an exotic entourage, he talks about our time, responds to the pain and conflicts of modernity. All three plays by Cocteau in Russian are published for the first time, which, undoubtedly, will be of interest to all theatergoers and fans of the creativity of the most original of the leaders of French literature of the 20th century.