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Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The ... [... more]
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Funeral Rites
Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, ... [... more]
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Miracle of the Rose
This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who takes root and bears unearthly blooms in the ecstatic and brooding imagination of his fellow prisoner Genet. [... more]
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The Screens
Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens-the only ... [... more]
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The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews (Meridian: ...
This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt ... [... more]
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Fragments of the Artwork (Meridian, Crossing Aesthetics)
Fragments of the Artwork brings together Jean Genet's critical writings and open letters on art and aesthetic issues. This collection testifies to Genet's enormous influence on the modern theater, on the development of the novel, and on the ... [... more]
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Fragments of the Artwork (Meridian, Crossing Aesthetics)
Fragments of the Artwork brings together Jean Genet's critical writings and open letters on art and aesthetic issues. This collection testifies to Genet's enormous influence on the modern theater, on the development of the novel, and on the ... [... more]
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Querelle
Regarded by many critics as Jean Genet's highest achievement in the novel -- certainly one of the landmarks of postwar French literature. The story of a dangerous man seduced by peril, Querelle deals in a startling way with the Dostoyevskian theme of ... [... more]
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Selected Writings Of Jean Genet (Ecco Companions)
A Great Genet Starter Book "The Selected Writings of Jean Genet" by Edmund White is arguably the best book to read if you are not familiar with Genet's writing. White is a biographer of Genet, but more importantly he is a great fan. The book ... [... more]
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Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics)
Starting in 1970, Jean Genet-petty thief, prostitute, modernist master-spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him ... [... more]
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El Balcon
Théâtre sans merci. Dans un bordel de luxe, les phantasmes les plus scabreux des clients sont exaucés par Madame Irma. Les clients peuvent ainsi se métamorphoser en évêque, en juge ou en général et ... [... more]
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The Balcony
Thin line between the straight world and a brothel The madame of the famous Grand Balcony brothel provides a safe place where her clients can come to act out their fantasies and take on the identities of important government and religious figures in the ... [... more]
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