ABSTRACT
When Jean Genet (1910–1986) died in Paris on April 15, 1986, he left behind him not quite completely corrected galley proofs of a new book, Un captif amoureux, which he had begun in the autumn of 1983. The book, which Gallimard published some three weeks later, broke a Rimbaldian silence— except for a few articles, interviews, and prefaces—of twenty-five years. His last major work, the play The Screens, had been published in 1961.
