The Criminal Child: Selected Essays - Paperback
by Jean Genet
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean Genet, Charlotte Mandell (Translator), Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)Publish date:2020-01-21Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681373614ISBN-10:1681373610UPC:9781681373614Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Essays, Memoirs, HistoryBook Topic:EuropeanSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC0M8JNNW9
The Criminal Child: Selected Essays
The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radiodiffusion Fran aise commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying expos . Revisiting the cruel...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681373614ISBN-10:1681373610UPC:9781681373614Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Essays, Memoirs, HistoryBook Topic:EuropeanSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC0M8JNNW9
Jean Genet (1910-1986) was born in Paris. Abandoned by his mother at seven months, he was raised in state institutions and charged with his first crime when he was ten. After spending many of his teenage years in a reformatory, Genet enrolled in the Foreign Legion, though he later deserted, turning to a life of thieving and pimping that resulted in repeated jail terms and, eventually, a sentence...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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Jean Genet, Charlotte Mandell (Translator), Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)
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