The Genet Translations: Poetry and Posthumous Plays

by Jean Genet and Mark Spitzer

Poetry. Drama. Translated from the French by Mark Spitzer. "Mark Spitzer has worked on these translations with a monastic patience and a martyr's zeal, and they require both ardor and dedication, since they are dense, heavily coded, daringly pornographic at times, and at other times far more lushly over-the-top than English comfortably tolerates.... No reader can truly understand Genet's plays or novels without grasping his poetry which Mark Spitzer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926616197
• ISBN13: 9781926616193
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Polemic Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.