Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean Genet (ISBN:1590170288)

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		Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics)
	
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			Jean Genet		
	
This personal account of the plight of the Palestinians offers  a unique viewpoint on the continuing Mideast conflict. Starting in  1970, Jean Genet...more
 This personal account of the plight of the Palestinians offers  a unique viewpoint on the continuing Mideast conflict. Starting in  1970, Jean Genet spent two years in Palestinian refugee camps. Always  an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people and their  cause, though the attraction was to prove as complicated as it was  deep. His final masterpiece, written and rewritten on his deathbed, is  a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection where  oppression, terror, and desire meet at the convulsed heart of the  contemporary world.   less

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few weeks ago

"Obviously I am drawn to peoples in revolt....because I myself have the need to call the whole of society into question." - Jean Genet Genet's final book printed just after his death is his prose poem of the Palestinians struggle, and a summation of his own personal, lifelong revolt against the order of things. This is perhaps the finest book by one of the truly great writers of...more

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A Reader

few weeks ago

Marvelous work, embedded with Fatah; Genet brings his unique view of power and sexuality with him on this journey; must read for anyone influenced by Edward Said.

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