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Article: Genet.(Genet: 'Journal du voleur')(Book review)

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Genet. Ed. by Mairead Hanrahan. (=Paragraph, 27.2 (July 2004)) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2004. 145 pp. 24 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7486-2188-1.

Genet: 'Journal du voleur'. By David Houston Jones. (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature, 50) Glasgow: University of Glasgow French and German Publications. 2004. iv+92 pp. 4.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85261-781-x.

Anyone with a scholarly interest in Genet should find something appealing in the special issue of Paragraph, which brings together long-established and newer critical voices on Genet in a highly thought-provoking collection of essays. True to the journal's theoretical ...

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