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Language: en
Pages: 129
Pages: 129
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-21 - Publisher: New York Review of Books
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
Language: en
Pages: 460
Pages: 460
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-31 - Publisher: New York Review of Books
Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself
Language: en
Pages: 207
Pages: 207
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-12 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel
Language: en
Pages: 212
Pages: 212
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-20 - Publisher: Grove Press
Jean Genet was one of the world's greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing
Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher: Grove Press
A fictionalized account of the author's lover, Jean Decarin, who was killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris in World War II.