Jean Genet by Stephen Barber

Author:Stephen Barber [Barber, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-86189-593-6
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2004-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

The Penal Colony visualizes a filmic world with excruciating exactitude and anticipation; it would prove to be the last of Genet’s sustained works on spaces of incarceration and their dynamics of sexual tension and disintegrating grandeur. Although Genet was at the height of his notoriety at the moment when he wrote the filmscript, he would never direct it. It rapidly became tainted in Genet’s eyes through Decimo Cristiani’s rejection of him (Decimo showed a supreme insolence and indifference to Genet’s plans to cast him in the film, exactly mirroring the blasé contempt of the film’s own characters); he would destroy the final manuscript of the filmscript a decade or so later, in his despair over the suicide of his lover of that time, Abdallah Bentaga, although it survived in the form of another manuscript. While Un Chant d’Amour exists only in the medium of images, without a filmscript or soundtrack, The Penal Colony has an inverse presence: lacking the images which Genet had envisaged, its medium is that of a savagely reduced language, throbbing with insect noise and its expelled human cries.

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