Jean Genet - Böcker

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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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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»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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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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»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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»Ett rop i extas och skräck. Ren poetisk genialitet.« | THE NEW YORK TIMES »Genet skapar en egen värld som ofta översvämmas av en brinnande skönhet. En mörkt högtidlig glans som inte mycket i den moderna litteraturen kan tävla med.« | BENGT HOLMQV...

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Proceedings of the First International Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval Prosopography (Bielefeld, Germany, December 1982).

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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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»Ett rop i extas och skräck. Ren poetisk genialitet.« | THE NEW YORK TIMES »Genet skapar en egen värld som ofta översvämmas av en brinnande skönhet. En mörkt högtidlig glans som inte mycket i den moderna litteraturen kan tävla med.« | BENGT HOLMQV...

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In a brothel of an unnamed French city the madam, Irma, directs a series of fantastical scenarios - a bishop forgives a penitent, a judge punishes a thief, a general rides astride his horse. Outside, an uprising threatens to engulf the streets.

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A play about the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure.

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'It is the life of vermin that I am going to describe...' Part-autobiography, part-fiction, The Thief's Journal (1949) is an account of Jean Genet's impoverished travels across 1930s Europe, through Spain and Antwerp with bits of occasional border...

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Composed in 1943 while the author was incarcerated in La Sante prison, this title features Harcamone, whom the author first encountered at Mettray and who resurfaces, unsurprisingly, in the adult prison of Fontevrault - now a murderer, and, in the...

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Splendid's, a two-act police thriller written in 1948, was never staged in Jean Genet's lifetime.

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The Maids (Les Bonnes, here translated by Bernard Frechtman) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. Genet's maids - Solange and Claire - occupy themselves, whenever their Madame is out of doors, by acting out ritualised fantasies of ...

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Translated by Bernard Frechtman and with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre (who famously hailed the novel as an 'epic of masturbation'), Our Lady of the Flowers was first written on brown paper in a French prison.

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Deathwatch, Jean Genet's earliest, shortest and most formally straightforward play, was first performed in Paris in 1949. It retains an intense power and makes an excellent introduction to his later dramas - The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks, The...

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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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Presents a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death. This book is a sensual and brutal portrait of a love story during the second world war, which unfolds between the poles of the author's grief for his lover Jean, kill...

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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. This volume contains two essays by Genet, originally published in the French periodical Un Tel, giving his striking...

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Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer Lieutenant Seblon. He is coveted, too, by corrupt policeman Mario. He gives himself freely both to brothel-keeper Madame L...

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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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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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'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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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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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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