Distributed for Reaktion Books
Jean Genet
With an Introduction by Edmund White
156 pages, 28 halftones 5 x 7-7/8
©
2004
Series: Reaktion Books - Critical Lives
Paper $16.95
ISBN: 9781861891785
Published March 2005
For sale in North and South America only
Related links: Distribution by the University of Chicago Press only to customers in the USA and Canada. Customers elsewhere should visit the UK website of Reaktion Books.
Introduction by Edmund White
1. Jack's Hotel
2. Jean Genet, the Bastard
3. The Criminal Child
4. The Mettray Colony
5. Crossings of Europe
6. Genet's Prisons
7. Our Lady of the Flowers
8. Miracle of the Rose
9. Genet in Occupied Paris
10. Jean Cocteau: Flaming Creature
11. Funeral Rites
12. Genet in Liberated Paris
13. Querelle of Brest
14. Genet's Hotel Rooms
15. The Thief's Journal
16. Lucien, Java, Decimo
17. Nico Papatakis and Genet
18. Un Chant d'Amour
19. The Penal Colony
20. Genet's Film Projects
21. The Cock and the Anus
22. The Screens
23. Unrest in the Theatre
24. Genet's Fragments
25. Rembrandt and the Wound
26. Giacometti
27. The Tightrope-Walker
28. Death, Suicide, Silence
29. Paule Thévenin and Genet
30. Genet in Japan
31. Genet and the Destruction of America
32. The Palestinians: Love and Death
33. The Brutal Gesture
34. A Loving Captive
35. Larache and London
36. Pages Torn from the Book of Genet
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
| 
Shopping Cart
![[jacket image]](http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Images/Chicago/1861891784.jpeg
)
![[Add to cart]](http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Images/cart_add.gif)
Questions about this title? email