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The best prison novel ever! Well, actually it's a piece of erotica from a genius writer. Jean Genet is one of the greats, because he can express suffering, joyment, and a world that is extremely eroticize. To go into his world is like having a feverish dream and realizing that your world that you work in can not possibly exist. Genet's world is much more real, dirty and very very beautiful.
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May 29, 2007
Andrew Austin
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I have read this a few times. I love Jean Genet. There is something about the way he finds beauty in the most reviled parts of humanity which brings me back to him.
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