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020			_a9781681373614
082			_a364.36 _bGEN
100			_aGenet, Jean
245			_aCriminal child: selected essays
260			_bNew York Review Books, _c2020 _aNew York :
300			_a121 p. ; _bill., _c20 cm
365			_b1099.00 _cINR _d01
490			_aNew York review books classics
520			_aThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radiodiffusion Française commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying exposé. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied his incarceration, relishing the special argot spoken behind bars, Genet bitterly denounced any improvement in the condition of young prisoners as a threat to their criminal souls. The radio station chose not to broadcast Genet's views.
650			_aCriminal child
650			_aDelinquance juvenile
650			_aJuvenile delinquency
650			_aFiction
650			_aBiography, autobiography
650			_aPersonal Memoirs
700			_aMandell, Charlotte _etr.
700			_aZuckerman, Jeffrey _etr.
942			_2ddc _cBK