Article: No shocks left in Genet's predictable 'Balcony'

Article: Genet: A Biography.
Artforum International;  October 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... sum, as White writes, "Sartre's book about Genet and Genet's fiction are exact opposites, and one is the ... facts, the reputation, the books, even Saint Genet: already four Genets. To these we can add a fifth, and the smirking ...

Article: Genet.(Genet: 'Journal du voleur')(Book review)
The Modern Language Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Genet. Ed. by Mairead Hanrahan. (=Paragraph ... pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7486-2188-1. Genet: 'Journal du voleur'. By David Houston ... x. Anyone with a scholarly interest in Genet should find something appealing in the special ...

Genet: A Biography. (book reviews)
American Theatre;  April 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Sartre's now-famous conceit about Jean Genet's identity, his coupling of the emblematic ... the opposed personae represented in all Genet's texts by those doubled characters like ... voluminous study, which did much to establish Genet's reputation as one of France's major ...

Article: Genet: Up From the Depths to High Art
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 10, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Genet A Biography. By Edmund White. Knopf ... optimistic literature do we find a place for Jean Genet, perhaps the greatest confessional writer ... and pessimistic authors? Edmund White's Genet: A Biography reminds us that there is much ...

Article: Genet, Jean. The Declared Enemy: Texts and ...
Studies in the Novel;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...GENET, JEAN. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews ... Press, 2004. 384 pp. $24.95. First Genet was a poet. Then he was a novelist. After ... and articles for newspapers. This is the Genet whom we are just beginning to become familiar ...

Article: Genet's Palestinian revolution.(Prisoner of Love by Jean ...
The Nation;  February 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ...PRISONER OF LOVE. By Jean Genet. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York ... France in 1986, Le Matin declared that "Genet was assuredly one of the greatest French ... book, and even readers familiar with Genet are sometimes unaware of its existence ...

Article: Jean Genet: The Miracle of the Prose
The Washington Post;  November 14, 1993 ;     700+ words ...GENET A Biography By Edmund White Knopf. 728 pp ... life and works of the French writer Jean Genet (1910-1986) are laid out with precision ... France. Not just a fastidious chronicle of Genet's fabulously rich experience in the worlds ...