{"title":"Edmund White","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"genet-uma-biografia","title":"GENET - A BIOGRAPHY","description":"GENET: A BIOGRAPHY is the definitive account of the marginal life—from boarding schools to deportation, including prisons—of one of the most controversial French writers of the 20th century. Edmund White presents a meticulous biography, the result of seven years of research, in which he presents Genet's work concisely and without prejudice. \"Genet was friends with the greatest minds of his time: the philosophers Sartre, Derrida, and Foucault; the writers Cocteau and Jouhandeau, Juan Goytisolo and Moravia; the composers Stravinsky and Boulez; the theater director Roger Blin; the painters Leonor Fini and Christian Bérad, the sculptor Giacommetti; the political leaders Pompidou and Mitterand,\" says White. Thief, prostitute, prisoner, beggar, bastard, Jean Genet is one of the sacred monsters of French literature. \"Only a handful of 20th-century writers, like Kafka and Proust, have a voice and style so important, so authoritative, so irrevocable,\" wrote Susan Sontag at the launch of the author's novels in the United States in 1963. Genet spent his youth in reformatories and prisons, where he affirmed his homosexuality. While composing acclaimed novels and plays such as The Balcony, The Negroes, and The Screens, he created a shocking personal mythology marked by scandals, robberies, and feuds. He collected a succession of lovers who accompanied him through the Parisian underworld, and he conquered the European intellectual grand monde. His early works—Our Lady of the Flowers and The Miracle of the Rose—came to the attention of Jean Cocteau, but it was through the influence of Jean Paul Sartre that he became famous. After the suicide of one of his lovers, his friend and translator Bernard Frechtman, and a suicide attempt, Genet spent the 1960s reaping the success of his novels, plays, and screenplays. But from the 1970s until his death in 1986, he engaged in the defense of immigrant workers in France, took up the cause of Palestinians, and engaged with leaders of North American movements such as the Black Panthers and the Beatniks. \"I have no readers, but thousands of voyeurs who spy on me from a window that looks out onto the stage of my personal life,\" the writer once declared. Genet's work and life cover a vast intellectual, social, and political territory that resurfaces in this biography of Edmund White not only as a recovery of a unique trajectory, but as a panel of 20th-century cultural movements. Genet is part of the Contraluz Collection, dedicated to sexuality and its historical, political, literary, and anthropological aspects. Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. A professor at Princeton University, he published, among other works, Forgetting Elena; Nocturner for the King of Naples; States of Desire: Travels in Gay America; The Young American; The Beautiful Room Is Empty; The Married Man; Flaneur - A Walk Through the Paradoxes of Paris \"A witty and charming biography, without prejudice.\" London Review of Books \"A unique contribution to the understanding of Genet's work, his idiosyncratic ethical system and singular life experience (...) Memorable.\" San Francisco Review of Books","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175631569148,"sku":"9788501054234","price":169.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/213c29358ba088ed3bc271c4083f713a.jpg?v=1778322489"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/edmund-white.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}