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Deathwatch by Jean Genet
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.10Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.Informed by his own... -
Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.31Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and... -
Querelle by Jean Genet 9780802151575
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151575Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Screens by Jean Genet 9780802151582
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The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet 9780802128270
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €14.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802128270Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Funeral Rites by Jean Genet 9780802130877
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet 9780802130884
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130884Author GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint -
Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet 9781590170281
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170281Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint -
The Thief's Journal by M. Jean Genet
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and... -
Jean Genet by Stephen Barber 9781861891785
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64This title includes an introduction by Edmund White. This new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always... -
The Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet 9780802150561
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The Crime of Jean Genet Dominique Edde 9780857423399
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €17.55Dominique Edde met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence," she writes, "gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full,... -
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet 9780802130136
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The Crime of Jean Genet Dominique Edde 9780857428721
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428721Author Dominique EddeFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint -
Criminal Child: Selected Essays by Jean Genet
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373614Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Our Lady of the Flowers by M. Jean Genet
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'A beautifully written, dreamlike book . . . A true outlaw artist.' Bobby Gillespie, The TimesOur Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison... -
Jean Genet: Flowers and Revolution by Barbara Read 9781898253075
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898253075Author Barbara ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint < -
Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction by E. Stephens 9780230205857
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The Balcony (Le Balcon): A Play in Nine Scenes by Jean Genet 9780802150349
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150349Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint -
Anthroponymic analysis of Jean Genet's stories by Kouame Timoleon Kouadio 9786207986330
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L'Homme blesse by Robert Payne
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.91Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and... -
Riverwork by Lisa Robertson 9781552455173
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.46A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris.Some ruins are invisible.Under... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.98John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse... -
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim... -
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64______________ 'Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund... -
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne 9781035920334
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.49LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share... -
Paul Nizan: Committed Literature in a Conspiratorial World by W. D. Redfern 9780691619989
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Sartre's friend and sometime rival, Paul Nizan was a prototype of the angry young man. Ideologically a Marxist, politically a Communist, professionally a writer, endowed--Sartre conceded--with a... -
Assayas and Political Seriousness Brian Price 9798899480485
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €91.27A cogent reconsideration of Assayas's cinematic oeuvre and what it teaches us about the political today The films of Olivier Assayas are widely celebrated for their complex responses to the many... -
Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography by Maria DiBattista
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €30.00Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author?... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde Alyce Mahon 9780691264622
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.55"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691278087
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.83A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards-now... -
Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.40'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and... -
La Batarde by Violette LeDuc
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €16.66An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own... -
Soy Mi Madre by Phil Collins 9780934324465
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.88Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins' film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region... -
<i>Saint Genet</i> decanonized: The Ludic body in <i>Querelle</i> by Loren Ringer 9789042015869
Booksplease Price: €75.052002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet's work has largely been read and interpreted through Sartre's analysis of the author. In this... -
Fragments of the European City by Stephen Barber 9780948462665
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €10.97This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities - Berlin.Taking as its subject the... -
Gutter Auteur: The Films of Andy Milligan by Rob Craig 9780786465972
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €30.33Grindhouse filmmaker Andy Milligan has been the subject of a revealing biography, and boasts a grassroots fan base, but his remarkable work has thus far received no serious critical overview. Working... -
On Cats Charles Bukowski 9781782117278
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go'For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient... -
Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute 9780811222761
Booksplease Price: €10.31Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work...