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Looking for Genet

Author : Alfred Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Genet written by Alfred Chester and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for Genet brings together twenty-five of Chester's notorious essays and reviews, including pieces on Nabokov's Pale Fire ("a total wreck, and for one reason: it's not funny, and it's supposed to be"), Burroughs's Naked Lunch ("the first half is pleasantly readable without too much skipping, the second is pleasantly skippable without too much yawning"), and Updike's Pigeon Feathers ("a god who has allowed a writer to lavish such craft upon these worthless tales is capable of anything"). Here too are sketches from his penniless bohemian life in Paris, seven "Letters from Morocco" written for the New York Herald Tribune, and Chester's final piece--the half-mad, previously unpublished "Letter from the Wandering Jew," a howl of rage and despair from his hated final home, Jerusalem. Together these pieces are testament to the life and the talent of the Sixties' most memorable literary iconoclasts.

Prisoner of Love

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378418
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of Love written by Jean Genet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal—the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.

Our Lady of the Flowers

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194249
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of the Flowers written by Jean Genet and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1994-01-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man’s journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed “the epic of masturbation” by no less a figure than Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel’s exceptional value lies in its exquisite ambiguity.

Saint Genet

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816677603
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Saint Genet written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable and controversial study of the mind, life, and legend of Jean Genet

Funeral Rites

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802130877
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Funeral Rites written by Jean Genet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Born Jumping

Author : Benjamin Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939758279
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Born Jumping written by Benjamin Genet and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would your life be like if you could be more successful in everything you did? What if you could improve your marriage, your business, or your social life and make each of these the best they could possibly be? In Born Jumping, Benjamin Genet dares you to leap into the fray with him and strive to achieve all you can. He explores the concept of success, and demonstrates how he, a typical man, learned to pursue and achieve his dreams with enthusiasm and intention. As Genet takes you through his battle with A.D.H.D., the ups and downs of marriage and fatherhood, and his quest to find a financially and emotionally sustainable occupation, his touching stories and wisdom will help you to prevail over your own struggles and dreams. Genet artfully combines his own life experience and a hybrid of spiritualities and philosophies to craft the "Jumper's Success Formula"-his tried and true method for success. Using his streamlined Formula, Genet shows you how to harness your inner power and bring meaning to your life. You'll identify your goals, your hopes, your strengths, and your fears, and armed with the Formula, you'll be able to effectively strive for greatness in everything you do.

Jean Genet

Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861891785
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Jean Genet written by Stephen Barber and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the French novelist, poet and playwright who became an icon of the gay movement, but also a champion of the despised and marginalized.

The Criminal Child

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373629
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Criminal Child written by Jean Genet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radiodiffusion Française commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying exposé. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied his incarceration, relishing the special argot spoken behind bars, Genet bitterly denounced any improvement in the condition of young prisoners as a threat to their criminal souls. The radio station chose not to broadcast Genet’s views. “The Criminal Child” appears here with a selection of Genet’s finest essays, including his celebrated piece on the art of Alberto Giacometti.

The Screens

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802151582
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Screens written by Jean Genet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1994-01-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.

The Gathering

Author : Katherine Genet
Publisher : Wych Elm Books
ISBN 13 : 0473541971
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Gathering written by Katherine Genet and published by Wych Elm Books. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veil between the worlds is shredding. The old gods are calling. Erin inherits a cottage in a remote village from a grandmother she's never met. Considering how much she longs to get away from the unexciting life stretching out in front of her, this might be a dream come true. Except that it's a village full of witches and Druids practicing an ancient religion passed down through the centuries, and the priestess leading it is the calm, uncanny death worker Morghan Wilde. Life is different in Wilde Grove, with ownership of the cottage coming with a non-negotiable condition, and it's one Erin's not sure she can meet, or even if she should. She must choose to believe in the unbelievable - and then learn how to do magic too. Only then will she be able to claim her inheritance. It's an inheritance that is so much more than a cottage in the woods. Coming from a world that doesn't believe in magic, can she change her mind in time to claim her true identity and begin walking the path of her ancient ancestors? The Gathering is the first book in Katherine Genet's new Wilde Grove mythic fiction series. If you like mythology, real-life witchcraft, and have ever wondered what's behind the veil to the Otherworld, you'll love the Wilde Grove books. Book 2 is available on preorder and will be released February 16th. Keywords: fantasy fiction, mythic fiction, gods, goddesses, ancient religions, witches, witchcraft, Druid, fairy, fae, faerie, magic Buy The Gathering and step into a world of magic today!

Disturbing Attachments

Author : Kadji Amin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372592
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Disturbing Attachments written by Kadji Amin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Genet (1910–1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent of the police state, and an ally of revolutionary anticolonial movements. In Disturbing Attachments, Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory. Pederasty, which was central to Genet's sexuality and to his passionate cross-racial and transnational political activism late in life, is among a series of problematic and outmoded queer attachments that Amin uses to deidealize and historicize queer theory. He brings the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing. Disturbing Attachments productively and provocatively unsettles queer studies by excavating the history of its affective tendencies to reveal and ultimately expand the contexts that inform the use and connotations of the term queer.

Jean Genet in Tangier

Author : Muḥammad Shukrī
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Genet in Tangier written by Muḥammad Shukrī and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1974 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miracle of the Rose

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802130884
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Miracle of the Rose written by Jean Genet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Wood Engraving

Author : Barry Moser
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922790
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Wood Engraving written by Barry Moser and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " From the artist whom Nicholas Basbanes calls "the most important book illustrator working in America today" comes a primer on the art of wood engraving, a pursuit which one can "learn" in less than an hour but which one can master only through years of persistence, dedication, and indefatigable energy. Learning to engrave a block, says Barry Moser, is like learning to play the piano: it is all practice, practice, practice, all teaching the muscles how to perform the basics. At first your every gesture will be halting, labored, and self-conscious; then at last will come the moment when, like Ashkenazy at the keyboard, you can forget about "process," about "technique," and focus all your mental energy on making art. "There are no shortcuts," warns Moser. "Mastery comes only with time, work, and repetition. A great number of bad wood engravings must be made before one can expect to make a good one. Once your muscles know how to do their work, once they know how to carve thin white lines into boxwood, your mind will be free to invent." There is a lifetime of knowledge in this book: how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; how to transfer a drawing onto a block. There is advice, too, on tools: not only on gravers (burins, scorpers, stipplers, and spitzstickers) but also on lights (you'll need a good strong one) and engraving bags (the leather pillows that cradle the blocks as you carve). Here is how to ink, how to choose paper, and how to print. Here is how to fail, how to move on, and how to acquire the habit of work that leads to real achievement. Wood Engraving is an art lesson and a life lesson. And because it's a book by Barry Moser, it is also a gallery of prints and beautiful to behold."--Publisher's website.

The Tender Hour of Twilight

Author : Richard Seaver
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374273782
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Tender Hour of Twilight written by Richard Seaver and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account by the late founder of Arcade Publishing documents his experiences in the literary world of the mid-20th century, describing his efforts to overcome U.S. censorship laws and introduce readers to important written works.

Looking for Genet

Author : Alfred Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780876858721
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Genet written by Alfred Chester and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tangier

Author : Josh Shoemake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733761
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Tangier written by Josh Shoemake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries – men and women breaking through artistic borders. The results were some of the most incendiary and influential books of our time and the list of outlaw originals is long, stretching from Ibn Battuta and Alexandre Dumas to Twain and Wharton and from the darkly brilliant Beats of Bowles, Kerouac, Gysin and Ginsberg to the great Moroccan novelists: Mohamed Choukri, Mohammed Mrabet and Tahar Ben Jelloun.