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- Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
Saint Genet is Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic biography of Jean Genet—thief, convict, and great artist—a character of almost legendary proportions whose influence grows stronger with time. Bringing together two of the century’s greatest minds and artists, Saint Genet is at once a compelling psychological portrait, masterpiece of literary criticism, and one of Sartre’s most personal and inspired philosophical creations.
Table of Contents
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- Translator's Note
- p. vii
- Book I: The Metamorphosis
- A Dizzying Word
- pp. 17-48
- Book II: First Conversion: Evil
- I Will Be the Thief
- pp. 49-58
- I Is Another
- pp. 138-149
- A Daily Labor, Long and Disappointing . . .
- pp. 150-193
- Book III: Second Metamorphosis: The Aesthete
- Strange Hell of Beauty . . .
- pp. 355-401
- Book IV: Third Metamorphosis: The Writer
- A Mechanism Having the Exact Rigor of Verse
- pp. 425-446
- On the Fine Arts Considered as Murder
- pp. 483-543
- Please Use Genet Properly
- pp. 584-599
- Appendices
- 1. Self-Portrait of the Good Citizen
- pp. 601-606
- 2. The Tzedek Test
- pp. 607-610
- 3. The Maids
- pp. 611-625
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816680429
Related ISBN(s)
9780816677603
MARC Record
OCLC
859380363
Pages
640
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No