The Maids

Jean Genet

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Suggestions for Further Reading

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

Genet, Jean. The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays. Trans. Bernard Frechtman. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Grove Press, 1962.

———. The Thief's Journal. Trans. Bernard Frechtman. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Grove Press, 1964.

Jones, David Houston. The Body Abject: Self and Text in Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett. Oxford: P. Lang, 2000.

McMahon, Joseph H. The Imagination of Jean Genet. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Stewart, Harry E. and Rob Roy McGregor. Jean Genet: A Biography of Deceit, 1910–1951. New York: P. Lang, 1989.

White, Edmund. Genet: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

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