English-language collection of essays by Jean Genet, including The Criminal Child. Introduction by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
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Jean Genet (1910–1986)
Jean Genet (1910–1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political writer.
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Posthumously published correspondence.
English translation of L'Ennemi déclaré, edited by Albert Dichy.
Posthumously published letters from Jean Genet to François Sentein, written in 1943–1944.
English translation of Genet's play, written in 1948 and first published in French posthumously in 1993. Introduction by Edmund White.
Unfinished play, first published posthumously by L'Arbalète in 1994.
English title: Splendid's. Police-thriller play written in 1948. Long believed destroyed by Genet; the manuscript was rediscovered and the work was first published posthumously by L'Arbalète in 1993.
English translation of Un captif amoureux. Introduction by Edmund White.
Posthumous collection of texts and interviews from 1970–1983, edited and annotated by Albert Dichy. Published as Tome VI of Genet's Œuvres complètes.
Posthumously published collection of miscellaneous prose, notes, fragments, and other texts.
Written circa 1955 and first published posthumously by L'Arbalète in 1989.
Posthumously published correspondence between Jean Genet and Ann Bloch. Published by Merlin Verlag in Hamburg in 1988.
Posthumously published correspondence with Genet's early publisher Marc Barbezat and his wife, Olga Barbezat.
English title: Prisoner of Love. Genet's last major work, completed shortly before his death and published posthumously in 1986.
English title: Four Hours in Shatila. Written in 1982 following the Sabra and Shatila massacre and first published in Revue d'études palestiniennes in 1983.
English translation of Querelle de Brest.
English translation of Pompes funèbres, based on the revised Gallimard text.
Essay on Rembrandt, first published in Tel Quel in 1967 and later collected in Genet's Œuvres complètes. Associated with Genet's writings on Rembrandt, including Le Secret de Rembrandt.
Letters to Roger Blin, director of productions of Les Paravents and Les Nègres. Published by Gallimard in 1966 and collected in Œuvres complètes, Tome IV.
English translation of Miracle de la rose.
English translation of Journal du voleur. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. English translation of Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs.
English translation of Les Paravents.
English title: The Screens. First published by L'Arbalète in 1961. French stage premiere at the Odéon–Théâtre de France in 1966, directed by Roger Blin.
English translation of Les Nègres: clownerie.
English title: The Studio of Alberto Giacometti. Published by L'Arbalète in 1958.
English title: The Tightrope Walker. Essay on the tightrope walker Abdallah Bentaga, dedicated to him. Published by L'Arbalète in 1958.
English title: The Blacks: A Clown Show. First published by L'Arbalète in 1958. Premiered at the Théâtre de Lutèce in Paris on October 28, 1959.
English translation of Le Balcon. Later revised Grove Press editions followed.
English title: The Balcony. First published by L'Arbalète in 1956; revised in 1962. First staged in English at the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1957. French premiere at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris on May 18, 1960.
English-language volume containing two plays. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. The original French works were published separately: Les Bonnes in 1947 and Haute surveillance in 1949.
Scenario for a ballet, published with photographs by Serge Lido in 1949.
English title: Deathwatch. Published by Gallimard in 1949. Premiered at the Théâtre des Mathurins in Paris on February 26, 1949.
English title: The Thief's Journal. First published by Gallimard in 1949. Reissued as Folio no. 493 in 1982 and in 1993 with Querelle de Brest and Pompes funèbres, with a preface by Philippe Sollers.
English title: The Criminal Child. Radio text commissioned by Radiodiffusion française in 1949 but banned from broadcast. Published by Paul Morihien in 1949 and later collected in Gallimard's Œuvres complètes, Tome V, in 1979.
English title: The Galley. Included in the collection Poèmes, published by L'Arbalète in 1948.
English title: The Parade. Included in the collection Poèmes, published by L'Arbalète in 1948.
English title: The Fisherman of the Suquet. Included in the collection Poèmes, published by L'Arbalète in 1948.
English title: A Song of Love. Included in the collection Poèmes, published by L'Arbalète in 1948.
English title: The Maids. First published by L'Arbalète in 1947. Premiered at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris on April 19, 1947, directed by Louis Jouvet. Revised version published in 1958.
English title: Funeral Rites. First edition issued in 1947 in 1,500 copies. A revised and cut text appeared in Gallimard's Œuvres complètes, Tome III, in 1953; the unabridged text was also issued in Gallimard's L'Imaginaire collection.
English title: Querelle of Brest; also published in English as Querelle. First edition published in 1947. Revised text appeared in Gallimard's Œuvres complètes, Tome III, in 1953; the unabridged original text was also issued in Gallimard's L'Imaginaire collection.
English title: Miracle of the Rose. Written in 1943 at La Santé and Tourelles prisons. First edition published in 1946; second edition by L'Arbalète in 1956. Revised text appeared in Gallimard's Œuvres complètes, Tome II, in 1951.
English title: Funeral March. Published with Le Condamné à mort in Chants secrets in 1945, illustrated with a lithograph by Émile Picq. Later included in Poèmes (L'Arbalète, 1948).
English title: Our Lady of the Flowers. Written in Fresnes prison in 1942. First clandestine edition issued in 1943–44 in 350 numbered copies. Revised trade edition published by Gallimard in 1951 in Œuvres complètes, Tome II.
English title: The Man Sentenced to Death. Written at Fresnes in 1942. First hors-commerce edition privately printed at Fresnes in 1942 in approximately 100 copies. Later included in Chants secrets (L'Arbalète, 1945) and Poèmes (L'Arbalète, 1948).