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Saint Genet, actor and martyr / by Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman.
LIBRA PQ2613.E53 Z883 1963
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
- Standardized Title:
- Saint Genet: comédien et martyr. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Genet, Jean, 1910-1986.
- Genet, Jean.
- Authors, French--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, French.
- Criminals--France--Biography.
- Criminals.
- Genêt, Jean, 1910-.
- France.
- Medical Subjects:
- Genêt, Jean, 1910-.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 625 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : George Braziller, 1963.
- Contents:
- Translator's note
- Book I
- The Metamorphosis
- The Melodious child dead in me long before the ax chops off my head
- A Dizzying word
- Book II
- First conversion : evil
- I will be the thief
- I decided to be what crime made of me
- The Eternal couple of the criminal and the Saint ...
- I is another
- A Daily labor, long and disappointing ...
- "To succeed in being all, strive to be nothing in anything"
- Cain
- Book III
- Second metamorphosis : the aesthete
- Strange hell of beauty ...
- I went to theft as to a liberation, as to the light
- Book IV
- Third metamorphosis : the writer
- A Mechanism having the exact rigor of verse
- And I, gentler than a wicked angel, lead her by the hand
- On the fine arts considered as murder
- My victory is verbal and I owe it to the sumptuousness of the terms
- Please use Genet properly
- Appendices
- 1.
- Self-portrait of the good citizen
- 2. The Tzedek test
- 3. The Maids.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. Saint Genet: comédienet martyr. English. Saint Genet, actor and martyr.
- OCLC:
- 179879
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