Jean Genet

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A biography of the French novelist, poet and playwright who became an icon of the gay movement, but also a champion of the despised and marginalized.

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Title Statements

Full title :Jean Genet / Stephen Barber.

Summary

A biography of the French novelist, poet and playwright who became an icon of the gay movement, but also a champion of the despised and marginalized.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Reaktion books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

The Physical Object

Description:153 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1861891784, 9781861891785
oclc:ocm56660980
LC Classification:PQ2613.E53
Dewey Decimal:848.91209

Jack's Hotel -- Jean Genet, the bastard -- The criminal child -- The Mettray colony -- Crossings of Europe -- Genet's prisons -- Our Lady of the Flowers -- Miracle of the rose -- Genet in occupied Paris -- Jean Cocteau: flaming creature -- Funeral rites -- Genet in liberated Paris -- Querelle of Brest -- Genet's hotel rooms -- The thief's journal -- Lucien, Java, Decimo -- Nico Papatakis and Genet -- Un chant d'amour -- The penal colony -- Genet's film projects -- The cock and the anus -- The screens -- Unrest in the theatre -- Genet's fragments -- Rembrandt and the wound -- Giacometti -- The tightrope-walker -- Death, suicide, silence -- Paule Thévenin and Genet -- Genet in Japan -- Genet and the destruction of America -- The Palestinians: love and death -- The brutal gesture -- A loving captive -- Larache and London -- Pages torn from the book of Genet.

Subjects

Authors, French Authors, French -- Biography. -- 20th c… Biographies collective biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Écrivains français -- Biographies. -- 2… French literature French literature -- History and critic… Genet, Jean Homosexualité -- Dans la littérature Homosexuality in literature Littérature française -- Histoire et cr…