The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays
by Jean Genet
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Author: Jean GenetPreface: Jean-Paul Sartre
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-02-16
ISBN: 080215056X
Number of pages: 168
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: 5 stars for 'the Maids'
Summary: 5 Stars
I have not read 'Deathwatch' yet but the'Maids' lived up to what I was expecting from Genet. To learn more about Genet, I would highly recommend his biography by Edmund White - this is one of the best biographies I have read.
The 'Maids' is a play in one act with three charactors. Within this act Genet captures the role-playing of the classes of society rather brilliantly. He does not capitalize on the brutality of the actual case of murder (it is based on an actual murder) but looks instead at the motivations for doing it. There is a film adaptation of the story called 'Murderous Maids' which is pretty good but focuses mainly on the act of murder - and throws in a lesbian twist.
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