The Balcony: A Play by Jean Genet
Genet's play is set in a brothel that caters to peculiar tastes where men act out fantasies. These diversions take place while revolution rages and isolated the brothel from the rest of a rebel-controlled city. Genet’s book presents his caustic view of society.
The Balcony: A Play by Jean Genet
First trade paperback printing in this edition
Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, tape repair at interior corners, spine creases and light nicks, light soiling on white area of rear cover. Softcover.
Publishing Info: Grove E-130, New York, 1958
ISBN: n/a
The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant judge, and still another a victorious general, while a bank clerk defiles the Virgin mary. These costumed diversions take place while outside a revolution rages on which has isolated the brothel from the rest of the rebel-controlled city. In a stunning series of macabre, climactic scenes, Genet presents his caustic view of man and society.
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