Genet, Jean 1910-1986

Overview

Works:	1,321 works in 4,112 publications in 6 languages and 70,461 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama History Autobiographical fiction Exhibition catalogs Interviews Film adaptations Documentary films
Roles:	Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of screenplay, Interviewee, Dedicatee, Director, Librettist, Author of introduction, Narrator, Creator, Honoree, Lyricist, Film editor, Contributor, Composer, Editor, Conceptor, Scenarist, Performer
Classifications:	PQ2613.E53, 842.912

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Publications about Jean Genet

Publications by Jean Genet

Publications by Jean Genet, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Jean Genet

Saint Genet, actor and martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre ( Book )
Genet : a biography by Edmund White ( Book )
Jean Genet by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp ( Book )
The thief's journal by Jean Genet ( Book )
Four playwrights and a postscript: Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet by David I Grossvogel ( Book )

The imagination of Jean Genet by Joseph H McMahon ( Book )
Jean Genet: a study of his novels and plays by Philip Malcolm Waller Thody ( Book )
Jean Genet by Tom F Driver ( Book )
The vision of Jean Genet by Richard N Coe ( Book )
Ionesco and Genêt; playwrights of silence by Josephine Jacobsen ( Book )
The maids ; and, Death watch : two plays by Jean Genet ( Book )
Genet, a collection of critical essays ( Book )
Prisoner of love by Jean Genet ( Book )
The blasphemers : the theater of Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet by David I Grossvogel ( Book )
Jean Genet une écriture des perversions by Geir Uvsløkk ( )
De l'abject et du sublime Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett by Claire Lozier ( )
Drama des Skandals und der Angst im 20. Jahrhundert Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet by Mine Krause ( )
Œuvres complètes by Jean Genet ( Book )
Profane play, ritual, and Jean Genet; a study of his drama by Lewis T Cetta ( Book )
Glas by Jacques Derrida ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Jean Genet

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet ( Book )
155 editions published between 1943 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Novel by Jean Genet, written while he was in prison for burglary and published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. The novel and the author were championed by many contemporary writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Cocteau, who helped engineer a pardon for Genet. A wildly imaginative fantasy of the Parisian underworld, the novel tells the story of Divine, a male prostitute who consorts with thieves, pimps, murderers, and other criminals and who has many sexual adventures. Written in lyrical, dreamlike prose, the novel affirms a new moral order, one in which criminals are saints, evil is glorified, and conventional taboos are freely violated." --THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE

The blacks : a clown show by Jean Genet ( Book )
22 editions published between 1960 and 2009 in English and held by 1,831 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An English translation of Genet's symbolic drama which was first performed in Paris in 1959

The balcony by Jean Genet ( Book )
57 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in English and held by 1,437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The clients of a French brothel act out their fantasies while a revolution rages in the city

Miracle of the rose by Jean Genet ( Book )
32 editions published between 1957 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,432 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Funeral rites by Jean Genet ( Book )
17 editions published between 1969 and 1994 in English and held by 1,196 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een jonge Franse homoseksueel collaboreert tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog met de Duitse bezetters. Wanneer de Geallieerden oprukken naar Parijs raakt hij in paniek

Le balcon by Jean Genet ( Book )
119 editions published between 1956 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,043 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Le balcon est un bordel de luxe où plusieurs personnages viennent assouvir leurs fantasmes, sadomasochistes en apparence, mais philosophiques en réalité. Sous la comédie érotique, se cache une réflexion sur la mort

The screens : a play in seventeen scenes by Jean Genet ( Book )
7 editions published between 1962 and 1987 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,042 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The balcony (Le balcon) a play in nine scenes by Jean Genet ( Book )
13 editions published between 1957 and 1970 in English and held by 964 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution, the Chief of Police enlists the regular customers to play out the fantasy roles that destiny has denied them

The maids ; and, Death watch : two plays by Jean Genet ( Book )
17 editions published between 1954 and 1989 in English and held by 839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Maids - Deathwatch

Querelle by Jean Genet ( Book )
8 editions published between 1974 and 1987 in English and held by 769 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een matroos lapt de burgerlijke moraal aan zijn laars en wijdt zich aan moord, opiumhandel en mannenliefde

Haute surveillance by Jean Genet ( Book )
43 editions published between 1949 and 2010 in French and Undetermined and held by 578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Les bonnes & Comment jouer Les bonnes by Jean Genet ( Book )
37 editions published between 1947 and 1993 in French and Undetermined and held by 539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Skuespil

Les nègres : pour jouer les nègres : clownerie by Jean Genet ( Book )
70 editions published between 1958 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 536 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Les paravents by Jean Genet ( Book )
53 editions published between 1961 and 2012 in French and Undetermined and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Dans l'Algérie colonisée, Saïd va épouser Leïla, la laide. Autour de lui la révolte gronde. Mais l'argument politique n'est qu'une toile de fond : le sujet principal, c'est l'apothéose de l'abjection, de Saïd et Leïla. La modernité de cette pièce en dix-sept tableaux tient à sa mise en scène : des paravents sur lesquels les acteurs dessinent, symbolisent le monde des vivants et celui des morts

Les nègres : clownerie by Jean Genet ( Book )
38 editions published between 1957 and 1990 in French and held by 456 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti by Jean Genet ( Book )
49 editions published between 1957 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La découverte de l'atelier de Giacometti à travers des photographies de l'artiste au travail et des échanges entre Genet et lui permet de se rendre compte de l'importance d'un lieu et du cheminement des créations. Publié pour la première fois en 1963

The thief's journal by Jean Genet ( Book )
34 editions published between 1954 and 2004 in English and held by 416 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
French playwright Genet creates a self-portrait in an account reflecting his life and radical ideas about society

Journal du voleur by Jean Genet ( Book )
103 editions published between 1949 and 2006 in 5 languages and held by 365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Je nomme violence une audace au repos.amoureuse des périls. On la distingue dan un regard, une démarche, un sourire, et c'est en vous qu'elle produit les remous. Elle vous démonte. Cette violence est un calme qui vous agite. On dit quelquefois "Un gars qui a de la gueule". Les traits délicats de Pilorge étaient d'une violence extrême. Leur délicatesse surtout était leur violence

Poison by Todd Haynes ( Visual )
22 editions published between 1990 and 2012 in English and held by 361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Part horror film, part drama, part exposé, with an offbeat morality Poison examines the motives behind a seven-year-old boy's murder of his father, relates the story of a scientist who isolates the sex drive in liquid form, and graphically explores the sexually obsessive relationship between two prison inmates

Letters to Roger Blin; reflections on the theater by Jean Genet ( Book )
3 editions published between 1969 and 1979 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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