Jean Genet - Böcker

»Genets vackraste bok.« | JEAN-PAUL SARTRE »Bara en handfull 1900-talsförfattare, som Kafka och Proust, har en lika viktig, lika auktoritär, lika oåterkallelig röst och stil.« | SUSAN SONTAG Som tjuv, tiggare och homosexuell prostituerad flackar J...

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Querelle landstiger i Brest, vars dimmiga hamnkvarter befolkas av sjömän, hamnarbetare, poliser och prostituerade. Querelle, själv matros, tjuv, opiumsmugglare, prostituerad och seriemördare, begår ett mord som för honom innebär både en förbannels...

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I Rosenmiraklet [1946] återger Jean Genet sina erfarenheter inifrån franska fängelser på tjugo-, trettio- och fyrtiotalen. Det blir mer en världsförklaring än en bekännelse. Den katolska moraliska ordning som Genet inpräntats sedan barnsben återka...

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'A beautifully written, dreamlike book . . . A true outlaw artist.' Bobby Gillespie, The Times 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. Here is the...

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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 Telegraph Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire...

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Leonor Finis mångsidiga konstnärskap presenterades för första gången för en svensk och nordisk publik på Bildmuseet våren 2014. Boken Leonor Fini / Pourqoui pas? innehåller ett rikt bildmaterial från utställningen och tidigare opublicerade texter ...

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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. Widely conside...

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I Rosenmiraklet [1946] återger Jean Genet sina erfarenheter inifrån franska fängelser på tjugo-, trettio- och fyrtiotalen. Det blir mer en världsförklaring än en bekännelse. Den katolska moraliska ordning som Genet inpräntats sedan barnsben återka...

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Splendid's, a two-act police thriller written in 1948, was never staged in Jean Genet's lifetime. In 1952 he announced that he had destroyed the manuscript, and the play was assumed lost. Only in 1993 did a surviving copy reappear. Exhausted, unsh...

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»Genet var utan tvivel en av det här århundradets största franska prosapoeter, på samma nivå som Proust och Céline.« | LE MATIN Jean Genet skrev Begravningsståt [1948] som ett sorgearbete över sin vän, den kommunistiske motståndsmannen Jean Décarn...

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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. Widely conside...

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I Rosenmiraklet [1946] återger Jean Genet sina erfarenheter inifrån franska fängelser på tjugo-, trettio- och fyrtiotalen. Det blir mer en världsförklaring än en bekännelse. Den katolska moraliska ordning som Genet inpräntats sedan barnsben återka...

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Jean Genet's The Balcony, which premiered in 1957, is acknowledged as one of the founding plays of modern theatre: philosopher Lucien Goldmann dubbed it 'the first great Brechtian play in French literature'. In a brothel of an unnamed French city ...

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'One evening,' wrote Jean Genet in a prefatory note to The Blacks (1959), 'an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his colour?' Stereotyping, masking and clowning would be the tool...

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The 1966 staging in Paris of Jean Genet's The Screens by the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company was highly controversial. Written at the height of the Algerian War, it was initially considered un-performable in France due to the violent ...

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Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes. Informed by his own experience in French prisons, Jean Genet's fir...

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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. Widely conside...

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First published in France in 1949, The Thief's Journal is Jean Genet's iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an introduction by Genet's great admirer, Patti Smi...

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Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II 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. Elegaic, macabre, chimer...

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An English translation of Genet's symbolic drama which was first performed in Paris in 1959.

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Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears...

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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. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social posi...

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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 Dostoyevskian theme of...

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Querelle is regarded by many critics as Jean Genets highest achievement in the novelcertainly one of the landmarks of postwar French literature. The story of a dangerous man seduced by danger, it deals in a startling way with the Dostoevskian them...

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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 masterpiece, was written entirely...

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The mist beautiful book that Genet has written. Jean-Paul SartreThe Thiefs Journal is perhaps Jean Genets most authentically biographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyric...

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One of the greatest achievements of modern literature.Richard HowardA major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiritual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the majesty of love.Saturday ReviewGenet can use a br...

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An English translation of Genet's classic symbolic drama, first performed in Paris in 1959. France's master of the absurd explores racial prejudice and stereotypesusing the framework of a play within a play. The New York Times hailed The Blacks as...

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