"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.
"Only a true poet, a man possessed of verbally imagined artistry, could write such a play as The Screens.... [It] reveals a fabulous theatrical imagination, a joy in the creation of stage hyperbole."--Harold Clurman, The Nation
"A play of epic range, of original and devastating theatrical effect...a tidal wave of total theater."--Jack Kroll, Newsweek
"A shocking, brutal, but magnificently dramatic and human work...a culmination of everything Genet has done."--Roger Blin
Jean Genet (19101986), an orphan, grew up in a life of crime. He wrote his first novel while serving one of numerous prison sentences for stealing, begging, and smuggling. In 1948 he was condemned to life imprisonment but was pardoned by the president of France at the behest of the country's most eminent writers. Among his most notable works are the novels Our Lady of the Flowers, The Thief's Journal, Funeral Rites, The Miracle of the Rose, and Querelle. Genet was one of the first writers to openly avow his homosexuality and criminality as legitimate literary subjects, creating in his works the hero-criminal and hero-homosexual.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
US$ 12.76
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 176 pages. 8.50x5.32x0.44 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0571250327
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Screens was the last of Genet's plays to be performed during his lifetime. Its subject is the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure. 176 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780571250325
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # VC-9780571250325
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Screens was the last of Genet's plays to be performed during his lifetime. Its subject is the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure. Seller Inventory # 9780571250325
Book Description Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den AutorJean GenetKlappentextA play about the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure. Seller Inventory # 5938958