Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: flowers, lady
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1596541369
ISBN-13: 9781596541368

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 under such circumstances, because Our Lady Of The Flowers is nothing less than a mythic recreation of Genet’s past and then - present history. Combining memories with facts, f

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: plays, deathwatch, maids
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1994-02-16
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 080215056X
ISBN-13: 9780802150561

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.

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: rites, funeral
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802130879
ISBN-13: 9780802130877

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, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: rose, miracle
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 1994-01-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802130887
ISBN-13: 9780802130884

This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who takes root and bears unearthly blooms in the ecstatic and brooding imagination of his fellow prisoner Genet.

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Olympia Press
Keywords: journal, thief
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-06-20
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1596541377
ISBN-13: 9781596541375

Genet’s fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslovakia, 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.

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: show, clown, blacks
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802150284
ISBN-13: 9780802150288

Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: balcony
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1994-01-21
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802150349
ISBN-13: 9780802150349

“The Balcony is probably the most stunning subversive work of literature to be created since the writings of the famous Marquis.... A major dramatic achievement.” –– Robert Brustein, The New Republic