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

Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, letters, essays, and a rare interview…

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 a brothel of an unnamed French city the madam, Irma, directs a series of fantastical scenarios - a bishop forgives a penitent, a judge punishes a thief, a general…

A Study Guide for Jean Genet’s The Balcony, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand…

In seinem erzahlenden Werk behandelt der zeitgenossische franzosische Schriftsteller Jean Genet die Verkehrung aller Werte in einem selbstgewahlten Leben der Absonderung. Hans-Gunther Bruske untersucht in seiner Studie den Zusammenhang von…

Jean Genet is a writer known for contradictions in his life and in his creative endeavours. As a playwright, he has been classified in various categories: as a part of…