This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who takes root and bears unearthly blooms in the ecstatic and brooding imagination of his fellow prisoner Genet.

Miracle of the Rose (Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

jean-genet

Literary

Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics / Penguin Books

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Miracle of the Rose (Twentieth Century Classics)

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Part-autobiography, part-fiction - 'a Genet with a Genet stuffing, like the prunes of Tours', as Sartre put it - The Thief's Journal is an account of Genet's impoverished travels across Europe in the 1930s. Encompassing vagrancy, petty theft, and prostitution, the book transforms such degradations into the gilded rites of an inverted moral code, with Genet its most devout adherent. Betrayal becomes worship; delinquency, heroism. The skeleton of the work is a series of gay encounters between the 'hero' and a succession of shady figures - the con artist, the pimp, the detective even - from the European demi-monde. Appropriating the language of the Church, Genet creates a homily to a trinity of his own making - homosexuality, theft and deception. First published in 1949, The Thief's Journal is justly regarded as a masterpiece of existentialist prose, and is a milestone in the history of gay literature.

Thief's Journal

Classics

Blond

Funeral Rites

Jean Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War Two unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Powerfully written, and with moments of great poetic subtlety, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death. Translated by Bernard Frechtman

Castle Books

Features reminiscences of the author's experiences with the Black Panthers in the United States and with the Palestinians in the Middle East

Prisoner of Love

Biographies & Memoirs

Picador

Authors: Jean Genet Publisher: Grove Press Keywords: show, clown, blacks Published: 1969-05 Language: English ISBN-10: 0394172205 ISBN-13: 9780394172200 Binding: Paperback List Price: Unknown

The Blacks: A Clown Show

Dramas & Plays

GROVE PRESS

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.

The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays

The Thief's Journal

Evergreen Black Cat

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 Dostoyevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation.

Querelle

The Maids.

London: Faber 1974. (Faber Paperbacks)

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