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Description for Jean Genet
Paperback. A biography that cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled with his work. It emphasises those elements that made his life particularly inspirational in the 1960s and which continue to make it vital for readers. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 160 pages, 28 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
This title includes an introduction by Edmund White. This new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled with his work. Stephen Barber emphasises those elements that made his life particularly inspirational in the 1960s and which continue to make it vital for readers today. Genet's work is a distillation of preoccupations and reinventions of crucial matters sex, desire, death and revolution all of which became mediated in the form of his own travels, imprisonments, sexual and emotional relationships, political engagements and protests. The book ... Read more
This title includes an introduction by Edmund White. This new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled with his work. Stephen Barber emphasises those elements that made his life particularly inspirational in the 1960s and which continue to make it vital for readers today. Genet's work is a distillation of preoccupations and reinventions of crucial matters sex, desire, death and revolution all of which became mediated in the form of his own travels, imprisonments, sexual and emotional relationships, political engagements and protests. The book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891785
SKU
V9781861891785
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Ref
99-15
About Stephen Barber
Stephen Barber is Professor of Media Arts at Kingston University, Surrey. His recent books include Extreme Europe (2001) and Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space (2002)
Reviews for Jean Genet
Barber has an elegant prose style, elliptical and engaging in about equal measure, and this, together with some judicious quotation from Genet's own writings, makes for a provocative and informative critical biography ... Barber performs what should be the duty of every literary biographer: he leads you back to Genet's writing, and makes you wonder once more about the man ... Read more