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Jean Genet
Book List in Order: 10 titles
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Querelle de Brest
- Jul-1987
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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 Dostoyevskia...
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Our Lady of the Flowers
- Jan-1994
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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 Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his master...
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Funeral Rites
- Feb-1994
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“A dazzling masterwork” of sex, death, love, and suffering in WWII Vichy France by the infamous novelist and author of Our Lady of the Flowers (Leo Bersani, The New York Times Book Review).One of the great literary outlaws of the 20th centur...
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Miracle of the Rose
- Feb-1994
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“One of the greatest achievements of modern literature.” -- Richard Howard“A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiritual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the majesty of love.” -- Saturday Revie...
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Selected Writings Of Jean Genet
- May-1995
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Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, letters, essays, and a rare interview, all edited by a contemporary biographer.
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Querelle of Brest
- Feb-2010
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'The man who wears the uniform of a sailor is in no way pledged or bound to obey the rules of prudence...' First published in 1947, revised for Gallimard in 1953, Querelle of Brest is widely considered to be Jean Genet's most accomplished novel, it...
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