Jean Genet

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The Criminal Child: Selected EssaysPaperback, 21 January 2020

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Print Length
128 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Date Published
21 Jan 2020
ISBN-10
1681373610
ISBN-13
9781681373614

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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 Française 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 exposé. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied his incarceration, relishing the special argot spoken behind bars, Genet bitterly denounced any improvement in the condition of young prisoners as a threat to their criminal souls. The radio station chose not to broadcast Genet's views.

"The Criminal Child" appears here with a selection of Genet's finest essays, including his celebrated piece on the art of Alberto Giacometti.

Product Details

Author:
Jean Genet
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 January 2020
Dimensions:
20.07 x 12.45 x 1.02 cm
ISBN-10:
1681373610
ISBN-13:
9781681373614
Language:
English
Pages:
128
Weight:
136.08 gm

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