Les enfants terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation - cocteau was always a poet no matter what he was writing - the book...Les enfants terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation - cocteau was always a poet no matter what he was writing - the book came into its own for English-language readers in when the present version was completed by rosamond lehmann.