Jean Genet's little known masterpiece in which he recounted his two years spent in the Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he was drawn to this displaced people and their cause. Translated by Barbara Bay, with an introduction by Adhaf Soueif.
Splendid's , a two-act police thriller written in 1948, was never staged in Jean Genet's lifetime. In 1952, he announced that he had destroyed the manuscript and the play was assumed lost. Only in 1993 did a surviving copy reappear. This title offers a translation of Splendid's .
Encompassing vagrancy, petty theft, and prostitution, this book transforms such degradations into the gilded rites of an inverted moral code, with the author as its most devout adherent.