Jean Genet | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 19 pages of analysis & critique of Jean Genet.

Jean Genet | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 19 pages of analysis & critique of Jean Genet.
This section contains 4,837 words
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SOURCE: Kennelly, Brian Gordon. “Less or More Black and White? Reassessing Genet's Les nègres in Light of Both Published Versions.” Dalhousie French Studies 44 (1998): 123-33.

In the following essay, Kennelly studies the changes Genet made to the text of The Blacks in its two versions, concentrating on the issue of ambiguity.

Je suis furieux. Je me donne depuis 15 jours tant de mal pour corriger cette pièce et la rendre possible, et vous me compliquez tout. […] Envoyez-moi le manuscrit. J'ai besoin de contrôler, mais avec cette imbécile manie de vouloir me conserver les manuscrits, je ne peux jamais corriger. À quoi jouez-vous? Je ne signerai pas une réédition des Nègres si je ne peux pas corriger ce texte, s'il est mal imprimé.1

Each of the five plays by Jean Genet performed before his death in 1986 exists in more than one published version.2 Critics have discussed...

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