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Criminal Child: Selected Essays by Jean Genet, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Paperback, 2020)

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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, a French radio station commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece about his youth that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying expose. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied his incarceration, relishing the special argot spoken behind bars, Genet wondered if regulating that strange other world wouldn't simply prevent future children from discovering their essentially criminal nature in the way that he had. The radio station chose not broadcast Genet's views. Criminal Child appears here with a selection of Genet's finest essays, including his celebrated piece on the art of Alberto Giacometti.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
T.H.E. New York Review of Books, INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9781681373614
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11046623920

Product Key Features

Book Title
Criminal Child: Selected Essays
Author
Jean Genet, Jeffrey Zuckerman
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
2020
Number of Pages
280 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
203mm
Item Width
127mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Jeffrey Zuckerman, Jean Genet
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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