0571340849 
Paperback Miracle of the rose / Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman ; with an introduction by Terry Hands.
Publication year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0571340849 9780571340842 (pbk.) :
Notes: Translated from the French. Formerly CIP. Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions.Miracle of the Rose was Jean Genet's second novel, composed in 1943 while incarcerated in prison. The novel is informed by Genet's memories of confinement, both in prison and the Mettray reformatory where he spent three years from the age of 15. The central figure of the novel is Harcamone, whom Genet first encountered at Mettray, and
Original title: Miracle de la rose. English
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