The criminal child : selected essays

Author

Jean Genet

Call Number

• 364.36 G3281 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New York Review Books, [2020]

Physical Description

121 pages ; 20 cm.

Summary

A new translation of a previously censored and unavailable text by Jean Genet. "The Criminal Child" is a critical engagement with the French youth prisons, a reflection on Genet's formative years within them, a document of hostility towards society and its benevolent reformers, and an initiatory magical system.