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  • Our Lady of the Flowers

    by Jean Genet ...
    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 in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man's journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed "the epic of masturbation" ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Balcony

    A Play

    by Jean Genet ...
    A masterpiece of twentieth-century drama by the iconic author of Our Lady of the Flowers: "ingenious, intellectually exciting, and, yes, still quite shocking" ( The New York Times).In the midst of a city ravaged by violent rebellion, a brothel caters to the elaborate role-playing fantasies of men from all walks of life. A gas company worker pretends to be a bishop while, in the next room, another ... Read more

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  • Soledad Brother

    The Prison Letters of George Jackson

    by George Jackson ...
    A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and ... Read more

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  • The Screens

    by Jean Genet ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Balcony: "A play of epic range, of original and devastating theatrical effect…a tidal wave of total theater" (Jack Kroll, Newsweek).Jean Genet was one of the world's greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Thief's Journal

    by Jean Genet ...
    Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Blacks

    A Clown Show

    by Jean Genet ...
    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 stereotypes using the framework of a play within a play. The New York Times hailed The Blacks as "one of the most original and stimulating evenings Broadway or Off Broadway has to offer," while Newsweek raved that Genet's plays "constitute a body of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Funeral Rites

    by Jean Genet ...
    Translated by Bernard Frechtman ...
    "A dazzling masterwork" of sex, death, love, and suffering in WWII Vichy France by the infamous novelist and author of Our Lady of the Flowers (Leo Bersani, The New York Times Book Review).One of the great literary outlaws of the 20th century, Jean Genet was committed to challenging the complacent middle-class morality of his native France. His apocalyptic, pornographic, autobiographical novel " ... Read more

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  • Our Lady of the Flowers

    by Jean Genet ...
    Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Querelle

    by Jean Genet ...
    Series series Genet, Jean
    Querelle is 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 danger, it deals in a startling way with the Dostoevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation, and as a pact demanding an answering sacrifice.It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Maids and Deathwatch

    Two Plays

    by Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Series series Genet, Jean
    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 position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress’s lover to the police fails and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Prisoner of Love

    by Jean Genet ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Miracle of the Rose

    by Jean Genet ...
    Series series Genet, Jean
    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 brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD