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Title: The Balcony by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0-8021-5034-9 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1962 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thin line between the straight world and a brothel
Comment: The madame of the famous Grand Balcony brothel provides a safe place where her clients can come to act out their fantasies and take on the identities of important government and religious figures in the real world. Outside the brothel, a revolution is raging, assisted by a former prostitute of the Grand Balcony who uses her voice to spur the rebels on to a greater victory. When the government finally topples, the whores and clients work together to take their impersonations out of the bedroom and restore order by assuming the identities of the great figures who they used to play in bed.
Sartre referred to Genet as the prototype of the existential man, whose past as a convicted felon and his subsequent literary career illustrated a life where personal choice drove the moral distinctions. I have read an been absorbed by a number of Genet's works, my favorites being _Our Lady of the Flowers_ and _The Maids_. While I don't believe that _The Balcony_ is up to the level of either of those works, it's an important piece of the history of the theater of the absurd.
Worth reading. Perhaps now more than ever in a world where actors regularly transition to politics.
Rating: 3
Summary: Confusing, which is the point
Comment: Loved by Sartre, this play mixes politics with sex to a hilarious degree. Love the dark humor if nothing else. One of Genet's better efforts.
Rating: 4
Summary: Ingtruiging, confusing, full of risky ideas
Comment: The ideas that life is an illusion and that we are all actors perpetuating our own illusions are fascinating. This book contains some intruiging Existential ideas. I did get confused at times over who was playing which role.
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Title: Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco, Derek Prouse ISBN: 0802130984 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1969 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Maids and Deathwatch Two Plays by Jean Genet by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman, Jean Paul Sarte ISBN: 080215056X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0802150284 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Bald Soprano and Other Plays: Bald Soprano/the Lesson/Jack or the Submission/the Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, Donald M. Allen ISBN: 0802130798 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Teach Yourself Genetics by Morton Jenkins ISBN: 0844215643 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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