Jean Genet Knihy

Drama Jeana Geneta se odehrává ve vězeňské cele a jeho aktéry jsou 4 mladí muži - tři vězni a jeden dozorce.

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 TelegraphQuerelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon.

Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions. Jean Genet began to write his third novel in 1943, but it was to be changed utterly by the death of Jean Decarnin.

Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's 'Black Prince of Letters' her reconstructs his early adult years- time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities.

Dvě hry (Balkón, 1956; Černoši, 1958) francouzského autora, o němž Jean-Paul Sartre napsal životopis pod názvem Svatý Genet, herec a mučedník. Hry s převrácenými mravními hodnotami, o nichž se v doslovu J. Konůpka říká: „Každá Genetova hra se jeví jako rituál, posvátný obřad, jako jakási mše, arci černá, v níž její sloužící-herci velebí, povznášejí, vysvěcují zlo. Hodnoty jsou tu dokonale obráceny: peklo je rájem, temnoty jasem, neřest jedinou ctností. Vrah je světec, na němž ulpívá milost zločinu, a odsouzen za svůj zločin dostává aureolu mučedníka.“

The 1966 Paris staging of Jean Genet's The Screens sparked significant controversy, which is explored in this volume. It features two essays by Genet, originally published in Un Tel, where he shares his distinctive and personal perspectives on life and art. These writings provide insight into his creative philosophy and the broader cultural implications of his work during a tumultuous time in theater history.

This posthumous work brings together texts that bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt an affinity, including May '68 and the treatment of immigrants in France, but especially the Black Panthers and the Palestinians. Genet speaks for a politics of protest, with an uncompromising outrage that, today, might seem on the verge of being forgotten.

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 dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal—the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.