Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant judge, and still another a victorious general, while a bank clerk defiles the Virgin mary. These costumed diversions take place while outside a revolution rages which has isolated the brothel from the rest of the rebel-controlled city. In a stunning series of macabre, climactic scenes, Genet presents his caustic view of man and society.
- ISBN10 0802150349
- ISBN13 9780802150349
- Publish Date 21 January 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avalon Travel Publishing
- Edition REV ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 118
- Language English