Jean Genet

  • Prisoner of Love

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    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… [more below]

    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 430
    • Publish Date: January 31 2003
    • ISBN10: 1590170288
    • Language: English
  • Prisoner of Love

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    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… [more below]

    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 430
    • Publish Date: January 31 2003
    • ISBN10: 1590170288
    • Language: English
  • The Balcony

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    “The Balcony is probably the most stunning subversive work of literature to be created since the writings of the famous Marquis…. A major dramatic achievement.” — Robert Brustein, The New Republic

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    • Series: Genet, Jean
    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 21 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802150349
    • Language: English
  • The Blacks: And Other Joys of Sexual Intimacy

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    “In form, it flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity. . . . Genet’s investigation of the color black begins where mo

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    • Series: Genet, Jean
    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 130
    • Publish Date: January 18 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802150284
    • Language: English
  • Querelle

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    “It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the incredibl

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    • Series: Genet, Jean
    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: January 13 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802151574
    • Language: English
  • The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays

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    The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify.

    • Series: Genet, Jean
    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 166
    • Publish Date: February 16 1994
    • ISBN10: 080215056X
    • Language: English
  • Our Lady of the Flowers

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    Jean Genet’s masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.

    Jean Genet’s first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in

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    • Series: Genet, Jean
    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 12 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802130135
    • Language: English
  • The Thief’s Journal

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    First published in France in 1949, The Thief’s Journal is Jean Genet’s iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an i… [more below]

    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 21 2018
    • ISBN10: 0802128270
    • Language: English
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