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Prestige, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Jean Genet
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- French & European Pubns, Marc Barbezat, Gallimard
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- French, German, English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9783499119668
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First sentence
“OF ALL the state prisons of France, Fontevrault is the most disquieting.”
About Jean Genet · 1910–1986
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
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