Bibliography

WORKS BY JEAN GENET

NOVELS

Notre-Dame-des-fleurs. Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1944.

Notre-Dame-des-fleurs. Vol. 2 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1951, pp. 7–208.

Our Lady of the Flowers. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Grove Press, 1963.

Miracle de la rose. Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1946.

Miracle de la rose. Vol. 2 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1951, pp. 220–470.

Pompes funèbres. Offered for subscription only. N.p., 1948.

Pompes funèbres. Vol. 3 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1953, pp. 9–192.

Funeral Rites. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Grove Press, 1969.

Gutter in the Sky. Trans. (?). Philadelphia: André Levy, 1955.

FILMS

Un Chant d’amour. Dir. with Jean Cocteau, 1950. Available through the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Les Abysses. Dir. with Nico Papatakis, 1963.

The Balcony. Adapted to film by Joseph Strick, 1963.

Mademoiselle. Dir. by Tony Richardson. Script by Genet.

The Maids. Adapted to film by Christopher Miles, 1973.

Possession du condamné. Dir. Albert-André Lheureux, from Genet’s poem, “Le Condamné à mort.” 1967.

PLAYS

Haute Surveillance. Vol. 4 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1968, pp. 177–214.

Les Bonnes. Vol. 4 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1968, pp. 137–76.

Le Balcon, Vol. 4 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1968, pp. 33–136.

The Balcony. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. London: Faber and Faber, 1957.

Les Nègres. Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1963.

The Blacks: A Clown Show. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Grove Press, 1960.

Les Paravents. Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1976.

MISCELLANEOUS

L’Atelier d’Alberto Giacometti. Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1963.

Un Captif amoureux. Paris: Gallimard, 1986.

“L’Enfant criminel” et “Adame Miroir.” Paris: Paul Morhien, 1949.

“Lettre à Léonore Fini.” Paris: Loyou, 1950.

“Lettre à Jean-Jacques Pauvert.” Preface to Les Bonnes. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954.

“Ce qui est resté d’un Rembrandt déchiré en petits carrés bien réguliers, et foutu aux chiottes.” Vol. 4 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1968, pp. 19–32.

“Here and Now for Bobby Seale.” New York: Committee to Defend the Panthers, 1970.

Introduction to Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. New York: Coward-McCann, 1970, n.p.

“Quatre heures à Chatila,” Revue d’études palestiniennes, no. 6 (1983): 3–17.

“Violence et brutalité,” Le Monde, 2 Sept. 1977, 1–2.

WORKS ON GENET

Asian, Odette. Jean Genet. Paris: Seghers, 1973.

Bataille, Georges. La Littérature et le mal. Paris: Gallimard, 1957, pp. 199–244.

Bishop, Thomas. Pirandello and the French Theater. New York: New York University Press, 1966.

Boisdeffre, Pierre de. Une Histoire de la littérature d’aujourd’hui. Paris: Le Livre contemporain, 1959.

Bonnefoy, Claude. Jean Genet. Paris: Editions universitaires, 1965.

Brooks, Peter, and Joseph Halpern. Genet: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1979.

Cessaty, René de. “Rêve d’une révolution.” La Quinzaine littéraire, no. 464 (1986): 5–7.

Cetta, Thomas. Profane Play, Ritual and Jean Genet: A Study of His Drama. University: University of Alabama Press, 1974.

Choukri, Mohamed. “L’Homme que Genet n’a pas giflé,” Jeune Afrique, no. 1335 (1986): 50–51.

Cocteau, Jean. “Preparatory Notes on an Unknown Sexuality.” Introduction to Gutter in the Sky by Jean Genet. Trans. (?). Philadelphia: André Levy, 1955.

Coe, Richard. The Theater of Jean Genet: A Casebook. New York: Grove Press, 1979.

——. The Vision of Jean Genet. New York: Grove Press, 1968.

Cronel, H. Review of Un Captif amoureux, by Jean Genet. La Nouvelle Revue française 407 (1986): 81–85.

Daney, Serge. “Un Chant d’amour.” Cahiers du cinéma, no. 264 (1976): 60.

Deguy, Michel. “La ‘Piétà’ de Jean Genet.” La Quinzaine littéraire, no. 471 (1986): 14–15.

Derrida, Jacques. Glas. Paris: Editions Galilée, 1974.

Driver, Tom. “Jean Genet.” Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, no. 20. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

Erhman, Jacques. “Genet’s Dramatic Metamorphosis.” Yale French Studies, no. 29 (1962): 33–42.

Esslin, Martin. “Jean Genet—A Hall of Mirrors.” In The Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Doubleday-Anchor, 1962, pp. 140–167.

Genette, Gérard. Mimologiques. Paris: Le Seuil, 1976.

Gauthier, Théophile. Surréalisme et sexualité. Paris: Gallimard, 1971.

Hassan, Ihab. The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature. New York: Oxford, 1971.

Henning, Sylvie Debevec, Genet’s Ritual Play. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1981.

Jelloun, Tahar Ben. “Le Testament de Jean Genet.” Jeune Afrique, no. 1328 (1986): 57–60.

Kalb, Jonathon. “Whose Text Is It Anyway? The Balcony at A. R. T.,” Theater, 17 (1986): 97–99.

Kelman, Ken. “Imagenations.” Film Culture, no. 32 (1964): 16–18.

Knapp, Bettina. Jean Genet. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1968.

——. “Interview with Amadou.” Drama Review, 11, no.4 (1967): 105–8.

——. “Interview with Roger Blin.” Drama Review 7, no. 3 (1963): 111–25.

Leonard, John. “Portait of the Artist as Narcissistic Hitler.” Review of Funeral Rites, by Jean Genet. New York Times, 19 June 1969, p. 43.

Les Nègres au port de la lune. Ed. C. D. N. Bordeaux. Paris: Editions de la différence, 1988.

Magnan, Jean-Marie. Pour un blason de Jean Genet. Paris: Seghers, 1966.

Markopoulos, Gregory. “Jean Genet’s Only Film: Un Chant d’amour.” Scenario 2, no. 8 (1961): 8–10.

McMahon, Joseph. The Imagination of Jean Genet. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.

Mekas, Jonas. “Un Chant d’amour.” Film Comment 2, no. 1 (1964): 28.

Melcher, Edith. “The Pirandellism of Jean Genet.” The French Review 39, no. 1 (1962): 32–35.

Mitry, Jean. Le Cinéma expérimental. Paris: Editions universitaires, 1974.

Moraly, Jean-Bernard. Jean Genet, la vie écrite. Paris: Editions de la différence, 1988.

Morris, Kelly, ed. Genet and Ionesco: The Theater of the Double. New York: Bantam Books, 1969.

Naish, Camille. A Genetic Approach to Structures in the Work of Jean Genet. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Nin, Anaïs. Review of Un Chant d’amour, by Jean Genet, Los Angeles Free Press, 24 Dec. 1965, p.5.

“Obscene Ruling Upheld.” San Francisco Examiner. 25 Oct. 1966, 16.

Ottavj, M. F. Review of Un Captif amoureux, by Jean Genet. Europe: Revue littéraire mensuelle 64, no. 691–92 (1986): 219–20.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: American Library, 1963. From the French Saint Genêt: Comédien et martyr. Vol. 1 of Oeuvres complètes de Jean Genet. Paris: Gallimard, 1953.

Savona, Jeannette. Jean Genet. New York: Grove Press, 1983.

——. “Théâtre et univers carcéral: Jean Genet et Michel Foucault.” French Forum 10, no. 2 (1985): 201–14.

Séchène, Bernard. “L’Athéologie de Jean Genet.” Infini, no. 17 (1987): 102–28.

Thody, Philip. Jean Genet: A Study of His Novels and Plays. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1968.

Todd, Jane Mary. “Autobiography and the Case of the Signature: Reading Derrida’s Glas.” Comparative Literature 38, no. 1 (1986): 1–19.

THEORETICAL WORKS

Aristotle. The Poetics. Translated by James Hutton. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1982.

Austin, John. How To Do Things With Words. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination. Edited and introduced by Michael Holquist. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.

——. The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship. Translated by Albert J. Wehrle. Baltimore: Inc Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

——. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Translated and introduced by Ladislav Matejka and I. R. Titunik. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.

——. Le Marxisme et la philosophie du langage. Translated and introduced by Marina Yaguello. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1977.

——. Problems in Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Edited and translated by Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

——. Rabelais and His World. Translated by Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

——. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.

Barthes, Roland. La Chambre claire. Paris: Gallimard, 1984.

——. “Introduction à l’analyse structurale des récits.” Communications, no. 8 (1966): 1–27.

——. “Proust et le noms.” In Nouveaux essais critiques. Paris: Le Seuil, 1972, pp. 121–34.

——. “Rhétorique de l’image.” Communications, no. 4 (1964): 40–51.

Bazin, André. What Is Cinema?. Translated by Hugh Gray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Baudry, Jean-Louis. “Le Dispositif.” Communications, no. 23 (1975): 56–72.

Benveniste, Emile. “Sémiologie de la langue.” Semiotica 1, no. 2 (1969: 120–39.

——. Problems in General Linguistics. Translated by Mary E. Meek. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971.

——. “La Forme et le sens dans le langage.” In Le Langage. Actes du XIIIe Congrès des sociétés de philosophie de langue française. Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1966, pp. 27–40.

Branigan, Edward. Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narrative and Subjectivity in Classical Film. New York: Mouton, 1984.

Dauzat, Albert. Les Noms de famille de France. Paris: Payot, 1945.

Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Translated by Barbara Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

——. L’Ecriture et la différence. Paris: Le Seuil, 1967.

——. “Freud and the Scene of Writing.” Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman. Yale French Studies, no. 48 (1975): 73–117.

——. Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

——. “Signature, Event, Context.” Translated by Samuel Weber and Jeffrey Mehlman. Glyph, no. 1 (1977): 172–97.

——. La Voix et le phénomène. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1967.

——. “White Mythology.” Translated by F. C. T. Moore. New Literary History 6, no. 1 (1974): 5–74.

Eco, Umberto. “Paramètres de la sémiologie théâtrale.” In Sémiologie de la représentation. Edited by André Helbo. Brussels: Editions complexe, 1975, pp. 33–41.

——. “Pour une reformulation du concept de signe iconique.” Communications, no. 29 (1978): 140–91.

Eco, Umberto. A Theory of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.

Elam, Keir. The Semiotics of Theater and Drama. New York: Metheun & Co., 1980.

Erlich, Victor. Russian Formalism. 2nd rev. ed. The Hague: Mouton, 1965.

Freud, Sigmund. “Fetishism.” Vol. 21 of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Translated by James Strachey. London: Hogarth Press, 1953.

——. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Translated by James Strachey. New York: Penguin Books, 1960.

——. “Mourning and Melancholia.” Vol. 14 of The Standard Edition. Translated by James Strachey. London: Hogarth Press, 1975, pp. 243–58.

——. Three Case Studies. Translated by James Strachey. New York: Collier Books, 1976.

——. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Vol. 7 of The Standard Edition. Translated by James Strachey. London: Hogarth Press, 1953.

Garvin, Paul, ed. and trans. Structure, Sign, Function. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Genette, Gérard. Figures II. Paris: Le Seuil, 1969.

——. Figures III. Paris: Le Seuil, 1972.

Guiraud, Pierre. L’Argot. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1958.

——. Dictionnaire érotique. Paris: Payot, 1978.

Heath, Stephen. “Difference.” Screen 19, no. 3 (1978): 51–112.

——. Questions of Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.

Hedges, Inez. “Surrealist Metaphor.” Poetics Today 4, no. 2, (1983), 275–95.

Hjelmslev, Louis. Prolegomena to a Theory of Language. Translated by Francis J. Whitfield. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963.

Holquist, Michael, and Katerina Clark. Mikhail Bakhtin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Irigaray, Luce. Speculum, de l’autre femme. Paris: Minuit, 1974.

Jakobson, Roman. “Closing Statements: Linguistics and Poetics.” In Style in Language. Edited by Thomas Sebeok. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960, pp. 350–77.

——, and Morris Halle. “Two Aspects of Language, Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances.” Reprinted as “The Linguistic Problem of Aphasia.” In Fundamentals of Language. The Hague: Mouton, 1980, pp. 69–96.

Jameson, Frederic. The Prison House of Language. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Kawin, Bruce. Mindscreen. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1978.

Klein, Melanie. “Early Stages of the Oedipal Conflict.” Vol. 1 of The Writings of Melanie Klein. London: Hogarth Press, 1975, pp. 186–99.

——. “On Identification.” Vol. 3 of The Writings of Melanie Klein. pp. 141 –75.

——. “Envy and Gratitude.” Vol. 3 of The Writings of Melanie Klein, pp. 176 –235.

Kristeva, Julia. “From One Identity to Another.” In Desire in Language. Translated by Leon Roudiez (ed.), Thomas Gora, and Alice Jardine. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, pp. 124–77.

——. La Révolution du langage poétique. Paris: Le Seuil, 1974.

Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits I. Paris: Editions Points, 1966.

Man, Paul de. Allegories of Reading. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

Metz, Christian. Essais sur la signification au cinéma. Pt. 2. Paris: Klincksieck, 1982.

——. The Imaginary Signifier. Translated by Celia Britton, Annwyl Williams, Ben Brewster, and Alfred Guzzetti. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.

——. “Le Signifiant imaginaire.” Communications, no. 23 (1976): 3–55.

Oswald, Laura. “Figure/Discourse: Configurations of Desire in Un Chien Andalou.” Semiótica 33, nos. 1/2 (1981): 105–22.

——. “Semiotics and/or Deconstruction: In Quest of Cinema.” Semiotica 60, Nos. 3/4 (1986): 315–41

Pavis, Patrice. Problèmes de sémiologie théâtrale. Montréal: Les Presses universitaires de Québec, 1976.

Peirce, Charles Sanders. “Logic as Semiotic.” In Philosophical Writings of Charles Sanders Peirce. New York: Dover Press, 1955, pp. 98–119.

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of Folktale. Translated by Lawrence Scott. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968.

Ricoeur, Paul. La Métaphore vive. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975.

Rigolot, François. “Rhétorique du nom poétique.” Poétique, no. 28 (1976), pp. 466–83.

Schechner, Richard. “Comment.” Drama Review 30, no. 1 (1986): 5–7.

Searle, John. Expression and Meaning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Serpieri, Alessandro, et. al. “Toward a Segmentation of the Dramatic Text,” in Poetics Today 2, no. 3 (1981): 163–200.

Sperber, Dan, and Deirdre Wilson. “Les Ironies comme mentions.” Poétique, no. 36 (1978): 399–412.

Steiner, Peter, ed. Prague School Reader. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.

——. Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Todorov, Tzvetan. “Catégories du récit littéraire.” Communications, no. 8 (1966): 125–51.

——. La Conquête de l’Amérique. Paris: Le Seuil, 1982.

——. Mikhail Bakhtine: Le Principe dialogique. Paris: Le Seuil, 1981.

Ubersfeld, Anne. Lire le théâtre. 4th ed. Paris: Editions sociales, 1982.

——. “The Space of Phèdre.” Poetics Today 2, no. 3 (1981): 201–10.

Ullman, Stephen. Style in the French Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957.

Veltrusky, Jiri. “Jan Mukarovsky’s Structural Poetics and Esthetics.” Poetics Today 2, no. 1 (1981): 117–59.

——. “The Prague School Theory of Theater.” Poetics Today 2, no. 3 (1981): 225–35.

Yaguello, Marina, trans. Introduction to Le Marxisme et la philosophie du langage, by Mikhail Bakhtin. Paris: Editions du Minuit, 1977, pp. 9–18.

GENERAL

Artaud, Antonin. Le Théâtre et son double. Vol. 4 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1964, pp. 11–171.

Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleurs du mal. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1964.

Corneille, Pierre. “Discours des trois unités.” Vol. 3 of Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1984, pp. 174–90.

Duras, Marguerite. Navire Night. Paris: Mercure de France, 1982.

Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance Art: Live Art, 1909 to the Present. New York: Harry Abrams, 1979.

Graves, Robert. “A lo Dovino.” Introduction to The Poems of Saint Jean of The Cross. New York: Grove Press, 1968.

Juilland, Alphonse. “Les Faux amis du vocabulaire de Louis-Ferdinand Céline.” Stanford French Review 2, no. 3 (1978): 232–50.

Kant, Immanuel. The Critique of Pure Reason Translated J. M. D. Meiklejohn. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1942.

Michelet, Jules. Le Peuple. Paris: Hachette, 1846.

Proust, Marcel. A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris: Gallimard, 1973.

Read, Herbert. A Concise History of Modern Painting. New York: Praeger, 1978.

Rimbaud, Arthur. “Une Saison en enfer.” In Oeuvres poétiques. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1964, pp. 117–39.

Sue, Eugène. Mystères de Paris. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1963.