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Jean Genet

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Notre Dame des Fleurs è il romanzo d'esordio dello scrittore francese Jean Genet. Con uno stile narrativo altamente lirico che segue il libero flusso onirico del narratore, viene fatto il resoconto in gran parte autobiografico del viaggio di un giovane uomo nei meandri della malavita parigina degli anni '30. È …

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Diario del ladro è un romanzo parzialmente autobiografico di Jean Genet pubblicato nel 1949. Il libro è dedicato a Jean Paul Sartre e al "Castoro", ovvero Simone de Beauvoir.

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Querelle de Brest è un romanzo scritto da Jean Genet tra il 1945-46 e pubblicato nel 1947 in un'edizione clandestina corredata da 29 litografie di Jean Cocteau. Si tratta dell'unica opera autenticamente romanzesca, cioè opera di fantasia senza implicazioni autobiografiche, composta dall'autore; tutta la struttura è …

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The Miracle of the Rose is a 1946 book by Jean Genet about experiences as a detainee in Mettray Penal Colony and Fontevrault prison - although there is no direct evidence of Genet ever having been imprisoned in the latter establishment. This autobiographical work has a non-linear structure: stories from Genet's …

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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 the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant …

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Funeral Rites is a 1948 novel by Jean Genet. It is a story of love and betrayal across political divides, written this time for the narrator's lover, Jean Decarnin, killed by the Germans in WWII. The first edition was limited to 1,500 copies; in 1953 the text was revised by Gallimard, excising some possibly offensive …

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Prisoner of Love is Jean Genet's final book, which was posthumously published from manuscripts he was working on at the time of his death. Under its French title, Un Captif Amoureux, the book was first published in Paris by Gallimard in May 1986. Translated into English by Barbara Bray and with an Introduction by …