by Jean Genet · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070412815
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Les Bonnes» is the play by Jean Genet, published by Gallimard in paperback (222 pages, in French).
The play, inspired by the real case of the Papin sisters, focuses on Solange and Claire, two maids who, while the mistress is away, perform a ceremonial role-play between lady and servant. That ritual of humiliation, class and desire for revenge overflows and leads them to consider turning their fantasies into reality.
Edition presented, established and annotated by Michel Corvin. Includes the definitive 1968 version and the first edited version of 1947; belongs to the Folio Théâtre collection (no. 55).
Aimed at readers of twentieth-century French theatre and students working on Genet's play with critical apparatus.
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
