Prisoner of Love
of Jean Genet, Barbara Bray (Translator), Ahdaf Soueif (Introduction)
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Starting in 1970, Jean Genetâpetty thief, prostitute, modernist masterâspent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personalâthe last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire, at the heart of the contemporary world.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 430 pages
- Publisher NYRB Classics
- Publication Date January 31st 2003
- First Publication 11/05/82
- Language English
- ISBN 9781590170281
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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