Bücher von M. Jean Genet

The 1966 staging in Paris of Jean Genet's The Screens by the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company was highly controversial. This volume contains two essays by Genet, originally published in the French periodical Un Tel, giving his striking and highly personal views on life and art.

A play about the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure.

Splendid's, a two-act police thriller written in 1948, was never staged in Jean Genet's lifetime.

In a brothel of an unnamed French city the madam, Irma, directs a series of fantastical scenarios - a bishop forgives a penitent, a judge punishes a thief, a general rides astride his horse. Outside, an uprising threatens to engulf the streets.