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Which by the way, according to edmund white s biography, he thought this was his worst work. Edmund white examines the motivations behind the extremes in genet s life and writing. Ohio, usa, 1940 is the author of many critically acclaimed books, the most recent being the flaneur. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. Deathwatch, jean genet s earliest play, was first performed in paris in the two plays featured in this volume represent genet s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. White, edmund, 1940publication date 1983 topics gay men publisher new york. In this revelatory biography of jean genet, we have the first fullscale life of one of the great and controversial figures of twentiethcentury literature.
Genet ebook por edmund white 9780307764492 rakuten kobo. When edmund white moved to paris in 1983, leaving new york city in the midst of the. See martin esslins book for one perspective on genet s relationship both to artauds theatre of cruelty and to esslins own theatre of the absurd. Drawing on interviews with genet s friends, lovers, publishers, and acquaintances, and using new material from correspondence, journals, police records, psychiatric reports, and other original sources, white.
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