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Miracle of the Rose by Genet
$31.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Genet, Jean Ser.
Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those diff ...Show more
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. Here is the darker side of Montmartre, a world of pimps, thieves, prostitutes, queens and blackmailers, where 'morality' in the common sense of the word has no mea ...Show more
The Maids & Deathwatch - Two Plays by GENET JEAN
$33.00 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Genet, Jean Ser.
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. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destro ...Show more
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet; Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreword by); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality ...Show more
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's "Black Prince of Letters" here reconstru ...Show more
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
First published in France in 1949,The Thief's Journal is Jean Genet's iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an introduction by Genet's great admirer, Patti Smith.From a prison cell, the journal's narrator recounts his ...Show more
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