Unfinished Business: Tracing Incompletion in Jean Genet's Posthumously Published Plays

Unfinished Business: Tracing Incompletion in Jean Genet's Posthumously Published Plays
ISBN-10
9042002360
ISBN-13
9789042002364
Series
Unfinished Business
Category
Social Science
Pages
123
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Rodopi
Author
Brian Gordon Kennelly

Description

This is the first study systematically to appraise Splendid's, �Elle�, and Le Bagne, the three plays by Jean Genet published after his death, both in the context of the dramatist's dramatic canon and with respect to one another. After showing that their unusual publishing history necessarily sets these works apart from Haute surveillance, Les Bonnes, Le Balcon, Les N�gres, and Les Paravents, it argues that from Splendid'sto Le Bagne, the question of incompletion is 'exteriorized' -- moving from a purely thematic to an increasingly formal context -- and that the status of each posthumously published work differs: Splendid'sis a 'completed' play, thematizing incompletion; �Elle�, with its seemingly incomplete form having thematic currency, is a 'properly unfinished' play; and as the intentionally 'fragmentary', purposefully suspended 'beginning' of a play, Le Bagneis shaped by incompletion.

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