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.-
Hannah Arendt
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Dmitry Shostakovich
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Lenin
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Ford Madox Ford
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Erik Satie
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Walter Benjamin
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Leo Tolstoy
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Johannes Brahms
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Guy Debord
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Victor Hugo
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Frida Kahlo
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Maurice Ravel
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Jean Baudrillard
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Gustav Mahler
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Akira Kurosawa
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Antoni Gaudi
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Joseph Beuys
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Carl Jung
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Christopher Isherwood
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Dylan Thomas
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Leonard Bernstein
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Henry Miller
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J.-K. Huysmans
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Ernest Hemingway
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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Rene Magritte
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Mikhail Bulgakov
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Fidel Castro
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Constantin Brancusi
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Jean Cocteau
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James Joyce
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Igor Stravinsky
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Immanuel Kant
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John Clare
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Alfred Jarry
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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D. H. Lawrence
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 |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2004-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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