Jean Genet (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Jean Genet opened his literary career with a small group of highly personal lyric poems, beginning with “Le Condamné à mort” (“The Man Condemned to Death”). His poems are collected in Poèmes (1948).

Genet published several plays, including Les Bonnes (1947, rev. pr., pb. 1954; The Maids, 1954), Haute Surveillance (1949, definitive edition pb. 1963; Deathwatch, 1954), Le Balcon (1956, rev. pb. 1962; The Balcony, 1957), Les Nègres (1958; The Blacks, 1960), and Les...

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