Jean Genet by Stephen Barber

Jean Genet by Stephen Barber

A biography that cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled with his work.

Barber has an elegant prose style, elliptical and engaging in about equal measure, and this, together with some judicious quotation from Genet's own writings, makes for a provocative and informative critical biography.. Barber performs what should be the duty of every literary biographer: he leads you back to Genet's writing, and makes you wonder once more about the man who made it. The Compulsive Reader

Stephen Barber is Professor in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, Surrey. His books include Fragments of the European City (Reaktion, 1995), Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space (Reaktion, 2000), Tokyo Vertigo (2001), Extreme Europe (2001), The Art of Destruction: The Films of the Vienna Action Group (2004), Jean Genet (Reaktion, 2005), Abandoned Images: Film and Film's End (2011) and Performance Projections (2014). The Times has praised his work as ‘brilliant and profound’.

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ISBN 13	9781861891785
ISBN 10	1861891784
Title	Jean Genet
Author	Stephen Barber
Series	Critical Lives
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Year published	2004-09-01
Number of pages	176
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