The Crime of Jean GenetAuthor :
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Published : Friday 13 May 2016
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Now in paperback,A The Crime of Jean GenetA is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on anotherA andA one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genetâ?Ts work and achievement. Dominique EddAc met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. â?oHis presence,â?? she writes, â?ogave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genetâ?Ts movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing.â?? This book is EddAcâ?Ts account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genetâ?Ts life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genetâ?Ts work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genetâ?Ts perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, EddAc helps us more clearly understand Genetâ?Ts relationship to France and Palestine, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the theater, and even death.A A powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another, The Crime of Jean Genet is also one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genetâ?Ts work and achievement.
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