The Crime of Jean Genet

Dominique Eddé, Andrew Rubens, Ros Schwartz

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Seagull Books London Ltd
01 September 2023

Literature: history & criticism

Series: The French List

"Dominique Edd 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, calculated and precise [...] Genet's movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing.'

This book is Edd's account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genet's life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genet's work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genet's perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, Edd helps us more clearly understand Genet's relationship to France and Palestine, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the theater, and even death. A powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another, The Crime of Jean Genet is also one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement.

'Edd's book is an intelligent but not reverential account of the way in which Jean Genet fascinated and intimidated her.' - Times Literary Supplement

'For an American reader (or writer) currently agonizing over the degradation of civic values, The Crime of Jean Genet insists on a bracing distinction between literary art that assumes its anger exerts a force for change versus writing that ""never seeks to resolve or explain but, rather, to dissolve and destroy.""' - On the Seawall"

By: Dominique Eddé
Translated by: Andrew Rubens, Ros Schwartz
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9780857428721
ISBN 10: 0857428721
Series: The French List
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dominique Eddé The Crime of Jean Genet Translated by Andrew Rubens and Ros Schwartz

Dominique Edd is a Lebanese novelist and essayist, whose works include Kite (2012), Kamal Jann (2014), and The Crime of Jean Genet (2016), all published by Seagull Books.

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Edde's book is an intelligent but not reverential account of the way in which Jean Genet fascinated and intimidated her. -- Times Literary Supplement For an American reader (or writer) currently agonizing over the degradation of civic values, The Crime of Jean Genet insists on a bracing distinction between literary art that assumes its anger exerts a force for change versus writing that 'never seeks to resolve or explain but, rather, to dissolve and destroy.' -- On the Seawall

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