The Crime of Jean Genet (Seagull Library of French Literature) - Softcover

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<div><b>Now in paperback,&#160;<i>The Crime of Jean Genet</i>&#160;is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another&#160;and&#160;one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet&#8217;s work and achievement.</b><br><br> Dominique Edd&#233; met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. &#8220;His presence,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genet&#8217;s movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing.&#8221;<br><br> This book is Edd&#233;&#8217;s account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genet&#8217;s life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genet&#8217;s work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genet&#8217;s perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, Edd&#233; helps us more clearly understand Genet&#8217;s relationship to France and Palestine, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the theater, and even death.&#160; A powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another, <i>The Crime of Jean Genet</i> is also one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet&#8217;s work and achievement.</div>

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