This is Sartre's masterly portrait of life seen from new and revealing angles, in which the human soul is stripped of all its civilized veneer, and layers of experience are peeled back with ferocious skill - to reveal the depths of the private oppressions, sensualities and neuroses of our time and the overpowering evil to which modern man can descend.

CONTENTS:
Intimacy - The Wall - The Room - Erostratus - The Childhood of a Leader

Translated by Lloyd Alexander

A Panther Book - 1967
First published in Great Britain by Neville Spearman Ltd 1949
Reprinted 12 times

Panther edition 1st published 1960

Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1930. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandonded to the Public Assistance Authorities.
He was ten when he was sent to a reformatory for stealing; thereafter he spent time in the prisons of nearly every country he visited in thirty years of prowling through the European underworld. With ten convictions for theft in France to his credit he was, the eleventh time, condemned to life imprisonment. Eventually, he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by the late Jean Cocteau.

Translated by Bernard Frechtman

A Panther Book - 1966
First published in Great Britain by Anthony Blond Ltd 1964
Reprinted 1965

Panther edition published May 1966

First published by L'Arbalète, Lyons 1943
Revised edition published by Librairie Gallimard, Paris 1951