[Demoiselle Ying-Ning] : an erotic and humorous tale by Jean Cocteau on the topics of doubles, transvestism, and homosexuality.

De 1913 a 1939, Jean Cocteau se dedica en gran parte a la escritura narrativa. Se aleja de la novela mimética o realista para ofrecer nuevas propuestas formales partiendo de sus antecedentes y nutriéndose de sus contemporáneos. Construye un conjunto ficcional coherente en torno a una poética de lo maravilloso basada en una estética de la brevedad y de la sorpresa. Desconocemos la fecha de elaboración del cuento [Demoiselle Ying-Ning], sin embargo, un estudio intratextual e intertextual muestra su pertenencia a lo que Cocteau denomina “poésie de roman”. En efecto, contribuye a su coherencia por su escritura, por los temas transversales que aborda -la figura del doble, el travestismo y la homosexualidad- por los elementos sobrenaturales que presenta y el tono erótico y humorístico con el que logra sorprender al lector. Este breve relato refuerza el papel del poeta como catalizador de lo maravilloso oriental y occidental, de la tradición y de la vanguardia.From 1913 to 1939, Jean Cocteau devoted most of his time to narrative writing. He moved away from the mimetic or realist novel to offer new formal proposals based on his antecedents and drawing on his contemporaries. He constructs a coherent fictional whole around a poetics of the marvellous based on an aesthetic of brevity and surprise. We do not know when the story [Demoiselle Ying-Ning] was written, but an intratextual and intertextual study has shown that it belongs to what Cocteau calls “poésie de roman”. Indeed, it contributes to its coherence by its writing, by the cross-cutting themes it deals with, the figure of the double, transvestism, and homosexuality, by the supernatural elements it presents and the erotic and humorous tone which surprises the reader. This short story reinforces the role of the poet as a catalyst of the marvellous Eastern and Western, of tradition and the avant-garde