Jean Genet - Böcker

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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»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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»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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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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»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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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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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...

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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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The Screens was the last of Genet's plays to be performed during his lifetime. Its subject is the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure. While the most open...

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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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The Maids (Les Bonnes, here translated by Bernard Frechtman) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Paris in 1947, its action was inspired by a real-life scandal, the murder by two maids, sisters Christine and Lea ...

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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 c...

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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'...

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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 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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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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This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with whic...

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This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with whic...

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