Genet, Jean 1910-1986

The blacks : a clown show by Jean Genet ( Book )
192 editions published between 1957 and 2012 in 11 languages and held by 3,001 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 )
261 editions published between 1956 and 2013 in 17 languages and held by 2,746 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The clients of a French brothel act out their fantasies while a revolution rages in the city

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet ( Book )
67 editions published between 1949 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 2,013 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

Miracle of the rose by Jean Genet ( Book )
141 editions published between 1945 and 2013 in 13 languages and held by 1,863 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

Querelle by Jean Genet ( Book )
120 editions published between 1947 and 2010 in 13 languages and held by 1,470 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
First published in 1953, Querelle, a young sailor, is at large in the port of Brest. His abrupt superior officer, Lt. Seblon, records in an elegant diary his longing for the young man. The policeman, who frames his mates for stealing from the Monoprix, covets him. Mario, the brothel keeper's husband, feels entitled to possess him. The murderer in hiding, whom he nourishes, embraces him. Even the madame herself, despite her disapproval of his kind, becomes Querelle's mistress

The maids ; and, Death watch : two plays by Jean Genet ( Book )
184 editions published between 1946 and 2012 in 16 languages and held by 1,370 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Maids - Deathwatch

Funeral rites by Jean Genet ( Book )
21 editions published between 1969 and 1994 in English and held by 1,205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A fictionalized account of the author's lover, Jean Decarin, who was killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris in World War II

The screens : a play in seventeen scenes by Jean Genet ( Book )
8 editions published between 1962 and 1987 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,045 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The balcony (Le balcon) a play in nine scenes by Jean Genet ( Book )
20 editions published between 1957 and 1970 in English and held by 1,032 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 thief's journal by Jean Genet ( Book )
221 editions published between 1949 and 2012 in 19 languages and held by 955 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
French playwright Genet creates a self-portrait in an account reflecting his life and radical ideas about society