A Genetic Approach to Structures in the Work of Jean Genet

Naish, Camille

ISBN 10: 0674345819 / ISBN 13: 9780674345812

Published by First edition, published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978., 1978

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Good to very good. Some spotting on endpapers and on page fore edge. 219 pages with a bibliography.

Seller Inventory # 1598

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Genetic Approach to Structures in the Work of Jean Genet
• Publisher: First edition, published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674345819
• ISBN 13: 9780674345812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary studies

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Synopsis

Camille Naish has written the first formalist study of the provocative French writer Jean Genet. She treats his major texts, from the erotic homosexual elegy Le Condamne a mort (1942) to the highly controversial epic Les Parvents (1966), and links the characteristic structure of his later plays with his relatively obscure first poems and early novels. Dr. Naish’s study insightfully discusses previous critical responses to Genet, examines Genet’s relationship with Cocteau and the Surrealists, and finally takes an original look at humor and parody in this unusual writer.