Josh Shoemake: Tangier

A Literary Guide for Travellers. UK/USA 2013, 286 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 29.95
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I.B. Tauris
An edge city, overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the »Interzone«, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries - men and women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes ... Weiterlesen

Hadrien Laroche: The Last Genet

A Writer in Revolt. English by David Homel. CAN 2010, 296 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press
During the last eighteen years of his life (1968-86), Jean Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced: among them, the Black Panthers, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Palestinians. Hadrien Laroche's book is a careful philosophical and historical reading (though fascinating as a political thriller) of the acts and thoughts of various international political movements in the 70s ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Genet

A Biography. USA 1994, 728 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Vintage
Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, homosexual, rebel, Jean Genet was one of French literature's sacred monsters. In works from »Our Lady of the Flowers« to »The Screens«, he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society. His career was a series of calculated shocks marked by feuds, rootlessness, and the embrace of unpopular causes and outcast peoples. ... Weiterlesen

Jean Genet (R): Un chant d'amour

F 1950, SW 25 min., Stummfilm mit Musik, € 19.99
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Jean Genet verfasste das Drehbuch und führte Regie bei seinem einzigen Film »Un chant d'amour«. In einem Gefängnis finden zwei Männer ohne Worte zu einer einzigartigen und beeindruckenden Intimität. Expliziter Sex wechselt mit romantischer Nähe und erotischen Spielen. Ein Klassiker des schwulen Films.
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