“Ngiyafisa ukuthi nabanye abafundi basebenze kanzima nangokuzikhandla ukuze bezokwazi ukuthi baphumelele. Kumele wazi ukuthi yini into oyifunayo empilweni ubheke kakhulu kuleyonto, ugweme ukuba nabantu abafuna ukukwenzisa izinto ezingalungile eduze kwakho, bese usebenza kanzima,” kubeka yena. “A cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” The New York Times“A matchless contemporary classic. . . . Like Ulysses in its own day, so creatively formidable that any comment on its merit becomes at once presumptuous.” Terry Southern“Genet has taken a tabooed subject and created a world that is out of this world. He is a magician, an enchanter of the first order.” Richard Wright“Only a handful of twentieth century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style.” Susan Sontag“Incredible, appalling, thrilling, disturbing, offbeat, eloquent, violently crude, yet compelling. Reflects, as no other book of our time, the lower depths of human existence.” Boston Herald