Author: Jean Genet

Cited by

• John Burdett (1)
  • IN: Bangkok Haunts (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Eternal passed by in the form of a pimp. The prattle ceased.
    FROM: Our Lady of the Flowers, (1943), novel, France
• Juan Goytisolo (1)
  • IN: Count Julian (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I dreamed of Tangler, whose proximity fascinated me, and the prestige of this city that is more or less a favorite haunt of traitors.
    FROM: The Thief's Journal, (1949), Novel, France
• Ronald Hayman (1)
  • IN: Marquis de Sade: The Genius of Passion (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Towards what is called civil, love made me pursue an adventure that led to prison. If they are not always beeautiful, men bound to evil possess the manly virtues. By their own choice or a choice made for them by accident, they steep themselvs knowingly, uncomplainingly into a reproachful shameful element lke the one entered by victims of profound love. Erotic games uncover an ieffable world. The nocturnal language of lovers reveal it but such a language is not written down.
    FROM: Journal du voleur, (1949), Novel, France
• Debra Webb (1)
  • IN: Ruthless (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty -- a sunken beauty.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Adam Haslett (1)
  • IN: Imagine Me Gone (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh.
    FROM: Prisoner of Love, (1986), Book, France