The Crime of Jean Genet (Seagull Library of French Literature) - Softcover

Edd, Dominique

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857428721 ISBN 13: 9780857428721

Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2021

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<div><b>Now in paperback,&#160;<i>The Crime of Jean Genet</i>&#160;is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another&#160;and&#160;one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet&#8217;s work and achievement.</b><br><br> Dominique Edd&#233; met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. &#8220;His presence,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genet&#8217;s movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing.&#8221;<br><br> This book is Edd&#233;&#8217;s account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genet&#8217;s life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genet&#8217;s work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genet&#8217;s perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, Edd&#233; helps us more clearly understand Genet&#8217;s relationship to France and Palestine, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the theater, and even death.&#160; A powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another, <i>The Crime of Jean Genet</i> is also one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet&#8217;s work and achievement.</div>

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<div><b>Dominique Edd&#233; </b>is the author of several novels, including, most recently, <i>Kamal Jann</i> and <i>Kite</i>, both published by Seagull Books. <b>Andrew Rubens</b> is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in the <i>Glasgow Review of Books</i>, <i>Charlie Hebdo</i>, and<i> PN Review.</i><b>Ros Schwartz</b> is a translator of fiction and nonfiction and the chair of English PEN&#8217;s Writers in Translation program.</div>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857428721
• ISBN 13: 9780857428721
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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