Funeral Rites - Softcover

Genet, M. Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571340857 ISBN 13: 9780571340859

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2019

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A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work -- part of a revitalising repackage of all of Genet's novels for 2019.

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Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. He was ten when he was sent to a reformatory for stealing; thereafter he spent time in the prisons of nearly every country he visited in thirty years of prowling through the European underworld. With ten convictions for theft in France to his credit he was, the eleventh time, condemned to life imprisonment. Eventually he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by Jean Cocteau.$$$His first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, was written while he was in prison, followed by Miracle of the Rose, the autobiographical The Thief's Journal, Querelle of Brest and Funeral Rites. He wrote six plays: The Balcony, The Blacks, The Screens, The Maids, Deathwatch and Splendid's (the manuscript of which was rediscovered only in 1993). Jean Genet died in 1986.

Bernard Frechtman was the acclaimed translator of works by Sartre, Genet, Picasso and Céline.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0571340857
• ISBN 13: 9780571340859
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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