Pompas fúnebres (1947) es la tercera novela de Jean Genet y la primera que escribió fuera de la cárcel, con la intención expresa de rendir homenaje a su joven amante Jean Decairn, combatiente de la Resistencia muerto en las...
Jean Genet escribió Santa María de las Flores en 1942, en la prisión de Fresnes, y la escribió, según dice, «para hechizo de mi celda», y quizá, secretamente, para «comprobar cuál puede...
Tras la reedición en 2021 de «Diario del ladrón» en Francia, siguiendo el texto original de 1948 y recuperando términos, frases y hasta párrafos censurados en su momento por pornográficos, se hacía...
Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Widely conside
Jean Genet's The Screens , hailed by many to be Genet's masterpiece, was staged in Paris in 1966 by the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company. This epic 62-character play almost defies staging and, written at the height of the Algerian War,...
Splendid's , a two-act police thriller written in 1948, was never staged in Jean Genet's lifetime. In 1952 he announced that he had destroyed the manuscript, and the play was assumed lost. Only in 1993 did a surviving copy reappear.
Sold to 14 publishers around the world and receiving tremendous critical acclaim, "Twelve" was one of the most significant literary debuts of the year. A chilling novel of urban adolescence that is "both an indictment of excess and a cry...
"It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the incredible grasp of motivation-it is his most tightly plotted,...