Genet?

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 11:52:45 CST 2015


I read The Maids and Deathwatch so long ago I can't even remember them now.
Of course, my brain was pretty impaired through the ingestion of alcohol
and other toxins, which behavior often evokes the freakshow in the slums of
a poor fool's memory. Nevertheless, it's fairly certain that Genet and
Artaud influenced the anarchist in me.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Momò Nin <momonin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all:)
>
> Well, yesterday, I happened to crush in the  most "underground"
>  secondhand bookshop in Dublin, Ireland, and I felt imminently sad as I
> didn't see any orane/greenish colors of penguin anymore inside this shop,
> but "Vintage" surprisingly (for me) became the major book resources for the
> second hand, but anyway, I was shocked.
>
> But at least I  found  "Prisoner of love" by Jean Genet in the
> shop...however I read it first 10 times when I was 14, and now i am 31, so
> in following weeks I will be reading bout him and my childhood (well i read
> in chinese before, now in english)
>
> as it is a curios book and i "learnt" the "sexy" sensation for the first
> time (luckily or tragically).
> Are there anyone here who have some reading experience with Genet as well?
>
> Thanks and the warmest regards
>
> momò
>
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