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GENET, JEAN, AND FRECHTMAN, BERNARD (TRANSLATED BY) The Balcony: A Play
New York, Grove Press. 1966, Revised Edition. (ISBN: 0394172140) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Firm binding, clean text. Wraps price-clipped. No spine creases/marks. Browning. "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 his caustic view of man and society. / Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. After being abandoned by his twenty-two-year-old unwed mother when he was seven months old, he became a ward of the state. At thirteen Genet was sent to a vocational school run by the state welfare system. He ran away almost immediately, beginning a series of escapades, failed foster-home placements, and arrests for petty crimes that ended with his incarceration in a penal institution for boys. In 1948, condemned to life imprisonment, Genet was pardoned by the president of France at the behest of the country's most eminent writers. Canonized by Jean-Paul Sartre and called 'rotten with genius' by Louis Ferdinand Céline, Genet is the author of the novels Our Lady of the Flowers, The Thief's Journal, Funeral Rites, Miracle of the Rose, and Querelle, as well as numerous plays, including The Blacks, The Screens, The Maids, Deathwatch, and The Balcony. He died in 1986." - Publisher. Good.
Offered for US$ 3.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 006127