Jean Genet

Jean Genet was one of the world's greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony, and The Blacks. A philosophical satire of colonization, military power, and morality itself, The Screens is an epic tale of despicable outcasts whose very...

«1932. España estaba entonces llena de parásitos, sus mendigos. Íbamos de pueblo en pueblo, por Andalucía porque hace calor, por Cataluña porque hay dinero, pero todo el país nos era propicio. Así que fui un piojo más, y con conciencia de serlo. En Barcelona frecuentábamos sobre todo la calle del Mediodía y la calle del Carmen. A veces dormíamos seis en una cama sin sábanas y al amanecer íbamos a mendigar por los mercados. Salíamos...

The novel is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Its protagonist, Georges Querelle, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit.

French playwright Genet creates a self-portrait in an account reflecting his life and radical ideas about society.

An English translation of Genet's symbolic drama which was first performed in Paris in 1959.

Set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution, the Chief of Police enlists the regular customers to play out the fantasy roles that destiny has denied them. In the midst of a war-ravished city, a brothel caters to the elaborate role-playing fantasies of men from all walks of life. These perverse costumed masquerades parody and stylize the nature of the anarchic political struggle that rages outside. In a stunning series of macabre scenes, Genet presents...

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story...

Two Parisian sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a cruel socialite, but whenever she leaves, the two act out a bizarre, complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the mistress they serve.