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This work collects and groups, from four volumes of Genet's "Oeuvres completes", his writings on art and aesthetic issues. In lyrical essays and one candid interview, these present an untutored, original, defiant Genet, displaying his insights and acuities on a range of topics.

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Artikel, Unterhaltungen, Vorworte und Reden - die hier zusammengetragenen Stellungnahmen und Positionierungen des Schriftstellers Jean Genet dokumentieren, dass Genet, obwohl er in seinen letzten zwanzig Lebensjahren sehr zuru¿ckgezogen lebte, in eindrucksvoller Weise in der O¿ffentlichkeit pra¿sent war. Von Chartres bis Chicago, von der Goutte d'or bis zu den Lagern von Sabra und Chatila, von den Ufern des Jordan bis in die Ghettos der Africa...

The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, a French radio station commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece about his youth that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying exposé. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied hi...

Benvenuto ist ein Lohnkiller, sicherlich der beste im ganzen Reich Ciudalia. Und sein jüngster Auftrag - einen Edelmann abservieren, der im Rotlichtviertel einen draufmachen will - verspricht ein Spaziergang zu werden. Seine Zielperson erweist sich jedoch als zäher als gedacht, und ehe er sich versieht, steckt er bis zum Hals in einem Komplott, dem er nicht gewachsen ist. »Die Kunst des Krieges« ist ein Roman von Jean-Philippe Jaworski aus des...

Bayan Irma, Balkon adli lüks bir genelevin, bir yanilsamalar evinin sahibesidir. Toplumun önde gelen kisileri onun evine gelip, acinasi zavalliliklardan siyrilarak, kibir ve sahte acimasizlik kisvesi altinda güclü olduklarini hissetmek, dis dünyadan kacmak isterler. Ne var ki, fazla duygusal oldugu icin bu genelevden kovulan Chantalin simgesi haline geldigi bir ayaklanmayla birlikte tüm dengeler aniden altüst olur. Bayan Irma kraliceye ve düny...

Agosto 1944. Durante la liberazione di Parigi muore un giovane partigiano. Jean D., ucciso da un cecchino appostato sui tetti. A narrare la storia del ragazzo è il suo amante, che sceglie, per raccontare le ultime ore del combattente, un punto di osservazione singolare: quello degli sconfitti, dei miliziani in fuga e dei tedeschi braccati. Prende corpo nella sua narrazione un mondo marginale, fatto di crudo erotismo, di vite sacrificate, di co...

Eroe delle inquietudini della civiltà di massa, Genet sembra riallacciarsi, nei suoi versi, alla poesia epica e tragica del passato. Ma definirlo neobarocco o neoromantico sarebbe superfluo e improprio. Incline a un'atemporalità antinovecentesca, il suo classicismo è tuttavia ancorato nel presente, radicato nella modernità. Sempre seguendo una propria linea, egli fa sua la critica metafisica e sociale propria del surrealismo, ne possiede il gu...

A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work, which includes a new introduction by Jon Savage. 'One of the great writers of our times.' Sunday TelegraphQuerelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon.

Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions. Jean Genet began to write his third novel in 1943, but it was to be changed utterly by the death of Jean Decarnin.

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time.

Excerpt from Une Famille Rémoise au Xviiie Siècle: Études Historiques sur la Vie, l'Administration Et les Travaux Littéraires de Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly, La Vie Et les Travaux Littéraires de Jean Lévesque de Burigny, la Vie Et la Carrière Diplomatique de Gérard Lévesque de ChampeauxLa carrière de louis-jean de Pouilly ne fut pas de très longue durée: elle comprend à peine 59 ans, mais il se trouve qu'à l'époque 'où elle s'est écoulée, d...

Patti Smith has written a new introduction for The Thief's Journal, Jean Genet's most autobiographical novel-which follows the years he spent as a vagrant and petty criminal-hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as Genet's "most beautiful book

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time.

Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. A story of sex, crime and death, Our Lady of the Flowers is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.

Excerpt from Une Famille Rémoise au Xviiie Siècle: Études Historiques sur la Vie, l'Administration Et les Travaux Littéraires de Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly, La Vie Et les Travaux Littéraires de Jean Lévesque de Burigny, la Vie Et la Carrière Diplomatique de Gérard Lévesque de ChampeauxLa carrière de louis-jean de Pouilly ne fut pas de très longue durée: elle comprend à peine 59 ans, mais il se trouve qu'à l'époque 'où elle s'est écoulée, d...

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Jean Genet (1910-1986), poet, novelist, playwright, and political essayist, was one of the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His work, much of it considered scandalous when it first appeared, is now placed among the classics of modern literature and has been translated and performed throughout the world.

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