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The Crime of Jean Genet

English

By (author): Dominique Edde

Translated by: Andrew Rubens, Ros Schwartz

Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genets work and achievement.

Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. His presence, she writes, gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genets movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing.

This book is Eddés account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genets life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genets work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genets perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, Eddé helps us more clearly understand Genets relationship to France and Palestine, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the theater, and even death.  A powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another, The Crime of Jean Genet is also one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genets work and achievement. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Aug 2021
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780857428721

About Dominique Edde

Dominique Eddé is the author of several novels including most recently Kamal Jann and Kite both published by Seagull Books. Andrew Rubens is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in the Glasgow Review of Books Charlie Hebdo and PN Review.Ros Schwartz is a translator of fiction and nonfiction and the chair of English PENs Writers in Translation program.

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