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
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 ecstati
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 peo
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 Fran
This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the
