Prisoner of Love (Record no. 3688)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781590170281 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Prisoner of Love |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | / Author: Jean Genet. Intro: Ahdaf Soueif |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | New York Review Books NYRB; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2003 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 430p; |
| Dimensions | 20x13cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal—the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | PQ1-3999 French literature |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1665 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Genet, Jean |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1666 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Soueif, Ahdaf |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1667 |
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| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Language and Literature | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | PQ1-3999 71.225 | 10/24/2023 | 10/24/2023 | Book |