SOURCE: Bokyo-Head, Christine. “Mirroring the Split Subject: Jean Genet's The Balcony.” Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts 3, no. 2 (August 2002).
In the following essay, Boyko-Head investigates how characters in The Balcony fail to reconcile the split between their perceived images and their true identities.
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