Genet, Jean. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews.(Book review)

Studies in the Novel | March 22, 2006| | Copyright

GENET, JEAN. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews. Albert Dichy, Werner Hamacher, David E. Wellbery, eds. Jeff Fort, trans. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 384 pp. $24.95.

First Genet was a poet. Then he was a novelist. After that he became a playwright. And finally he wrote political essays and articles for newspapers. This is the Genet whom we are just beginning to become familiar with, due to the publication in English of three posthumous books of nonfiction in the last fifteen years: Prisoner of Love (1989), Fragments of the Artwork (2003), and now ...

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