The selected writings of Jean Genet
By: edited and with an introduction by Edmund White.
Contributors: White, Edmund, 1940-; Frechtman, Bernard.; Gobeil, Madeleine.
Series: Ecco companions
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Hopewell, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Genet, Jean, -- 1910-1986 -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: Series statement from jacket.

Selections from Genet's five novels; "The fisherman of Suquet" (poem); scenes from the plays The maids and The balcony; "The studio of Alberto Giacometti" (essay); "Comments on the cinema" from The penal colony; selections from Prisoner of love (memoir); letters to Sartre and to his lover Java; and an interview with Madeleine Gobeil.

The novels and the plays were translated by Bernard Frechtman; the poem, the "Comments on the cinema" and the letters by Edmund White; the essay by Richard Howard; Prisoner of love by Barbara Bray; and the interview by Rachel Stella.