The Criminal Child: Selected Essays

by Jean Genet

Book Overview

The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, a French radio station commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece about his youth that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying expos . Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681373610
• ISBN13: 9781681373614
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.9"