The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

THE DECLARED ENEMY Texts and Interviews

Edited by Albert Dichy Translated by Jeff Fort .

Stanford University Press

Stanford California 200 4

Jean Genet

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Stanford University Press Stanford. California English translation © 2004 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.

Prefoce

The Declared Enemy was originally published in French in 1991 under the title L'Ennemi declare © 1991, Editions Gallimard. English language rights reserved by the author's estate. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper

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"J.G. Seeks ... "

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Interview with Madeleine Gobeil

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§2 Lenin's Mistresses

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§ 3 The Shepherds ofDisorder

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§ 4 Yet Another Effort, Frenchman!

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Genet. Jean, 1910-1986 [rEnnemi declare. English] The declared enemy: texts and interviews I Jean Genet. p. cm. - (Meridian, crossing aesthetics) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8°47-2944-1 (allc paper) ISBN 0-8047-2946-8 (pbl