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Article: Jean Genet. Fragments of the Artwork.(The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews)(Book review)
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JEAN GENET. Fragments of the Artwork. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003. 181 pp.
JEAN GENET. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews. Ed. Albert Dichy. Trans. Jeff Fort. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2004. 384 pp.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS performs a great service in adding two volumes by Jean Genet to its Crossing Aesthetics series. Both books are collections of texts that have been available to Francophone audiences for some time. They are now offered in clear, precise translations that will open up Genet's political and aesthetic writings to a large new audience of English speakers.
The first of these volumes, Fragments of the ...