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Title: Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean Genet, Barbara Bray, Ahdaf Soueif (Introducer) ISBN: 1-59017-028-8 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: intense,compelling as he allows, Genet a poet,a writer,first
Comment: Genet allows you to feel the immediacy of the Palestinian situation with particles from lives,from ill-defined fragments of lives disrupted with no future,he stayed with a family in 1980 a half-day and a whole night where the young son,Hamza a fedayee went off at night to fight. Genet hearing gun fire in the distance inhabited his bed and was brought Turkish coffee and water in the night as a replacement for the young man,by his mother. Genet is a writer/poet,a political thinker,but never a man of politics, a deeply sensitive man,a virtuoso of the sensual image, as the starry-night reflected against the curtain in his room with the small blue table. "Of course it's understood that the words,nights,forests,septet,jubilation desertion and despair are the same words that I have to use to describe the goings on at dawn in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris when the drag queens depart after celebrating their mystery,doing their accounts and smoothing banknotes out of the dew."
Genet was allowed with special permission to visit the massacre site at the camps at Sabra and Chantila,smelling the rotting flesh, "They happened I was affected by them. I talked about them. But while the act of writing came later, after a period of incubation,nevertheless in a moment like that or those when a single cell departs from its usual metabolism and the original link is created of a future,unsuspected cancer,or a piece of lace, so I decided to write this book."
Genet has an intense need for passion of any dimension,scouring the vigours of whatever parts of fragments of the lifeworld's complexity presents itself to him. I once thought of this book as a romantic means of portrayel a betrayel of a political situation,one, the only one that excited Genet.It means something that only encounterings lives in struggle,bent into a repressive state that Genet finds the only life worth encountering,sensing and feeling about. This book was completed in 1986 after suffering from throat cancer, he died on the night of 14-15th of April,1986,while correcting proofs.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great and unique work.
Comment: This book is absolutely essential to any understanding of the Palestinian situation. It is also the mostimportant work of Genet's entire career.
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Title: Querelle by Jean Genet, Anselm Hollo ISBN: 0802151574 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman, Jean-Paul Sartre ISBN: 0802130143 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0802130135 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Genet : A Biography by Edmund White ISBN: 0679754792 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0802130887 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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