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Title: The Maids and Deathwatch Two Plays by Jean Genet by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman, Jean Paul Sarte ISBN: 0-8021-5056-X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Horrific , violent existentialism at its most absurd.
Comment: Genet based 'The Maids' on an actual event, one he felt a certain kin-ship with. In 1933 french police found Madame Lancelin and her daughter face down, in their living room, utterly mutilated. The eyes had disappeared, all teeth had been knocked out, fragments of bone and flesh were strewn about the floor, walls covered in blood. Upstairs the two servant-maids, the Papin sisters, were found naked, huddled together in one of two single beds. Immediately they confessed. Immediately, also, the papers picked up the story. The public was facinated how these two soft-spoken, mild-mannered girls, without provocation could have acted with such wild brutality. Senseless, irrational violence - Genet's speciality. He uses this story as a means to attack conformaty. A massive revolt against obedience, servitude, and the upperclass. A bloody triumph of individuality . Like other of Genet's works, it primaraly is concerned with Man's free will, or lack there-of. It is an existential story , revealing the darker sides of freedom, and the horror of the responsibility that comes with it. A tale worthy of Genet's genious. Exellent translation. Fans of Genet should also Check out Octave Mirbeau.
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Title: The Balcony by Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman ISBN: 0802150349 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1962 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: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130348 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays One: New Anatomies, the Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, the Love of the Nightingale, Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Faber Contemporary Classics) by Timberlake Wertenbaker ISBN: 0571177433 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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