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Article: Genet's Palestinian revolution.(Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet)(Book Review)
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- February 24, 2003
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PRISONER OF LOVE. By Jean Genet. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York Review Books. 430 pp. $16.95.
When Prisoner of Love was first published in France in 1986, Le Matin declared that "Genet was assuredly one of the greatest French prose poets of this century, reaching the same heights as Proust and Celine. Un Captif amoureux has all the sacred fire and poetry of his earlier works." Yet today several bibliographies do not list the book, and even readers familiar with Genet are sometimes unaware of its existence. I was amused to see that when the French theatrical Compagnie Lara adapted Captif into a play and performed it in April 2002 as part of the Prague ...
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